Hymns devotional and moral, on various subjects. Collected chiefly from the Holy scriptures. ... By John Needham. 1768

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* H E favourable reception of many of
the following Hymus among the Author's

Citations 10 ſee them in print, have induced him
to venture on this publication, not without hope
that this aitempt to ſerve the intereſts of real
religion will in ſome meaſure anſwer that defira-

friends, together with their repeated ſoli.

may came up to, or fall ſhort of the dignity of
ſacred Poeſy, muſt be left with the learned and
judicious reader : but whether they partake of
the ſpirit of poetry or not, *tis to be hoped they
will be found to breathe the genuine ſpjrit of the

Saber 1 Chriſt, which is that of devotion, gra-
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> = +* underſtanding.” Should theſe Hymns be ſo
Far honoured as to be occaſionally admitted into
- Public worſhip, it is preſumed there are few, if
_1 any. expreſſions,.in which chriſtians of different
- ſentiments may nat cordially j join ; but ſpould any
word, or phraſe give diſtaſte, the reader is do-
. to alter it for one that he thinks better
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1 boſe chriſtians who are for TER Pal
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think that ſeveral of theſe Hymns are not ſo
Proper for religious worſhip as thoſe that contain
matter of adoration, prayer, praiſe and thanks-
giving; whilf others, who chuſe to indalge a
greater latitude, may probably be pleaſed with

_ that variety which is bere offered them,

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PL RN E AF MA ACR ty
be Author takes this opportunity to return
his fincere thanks to thoſe learned friends who
. have done him the Bonour to peruſe his manu-
ſcript, and favour. him with their candid re-
marks; by avhich, be flatters.: himſelf, (theſe
Hymns. will be rendered "leſs unworthy of the
publick eye than otherwiſe they would have been.
By the defire of a learned friend a Table is
added of the principal Texts of ſcripture which
are either paraphraſed, or alluded'to in the fol-
"towing Hynms. Since the Index and Tables have
Been drawn up, a few bymns have been compo-
ſed, which, to prevent the trouble of altering
"the references, are annexed" by "way | of Ap-
pendix. The reader will no doubt obſerve there
"is @ near reſemblance in ſome of the ſubjetts,
wvhich the author hopes will excuſe the repetition
| ſometimes of the ſame- thoughts and phraſes ;
eobich had he more ſtudiouſly avoided, he is of
opinion that ſome particular Hymns: would only
© bave been rendered more languid than SO are
in their preſent form. Af
BRIS TOL, October 12, *
1768.
| GLORIA IN SUPREMIS DEO, ET INV TERRA PAX,
ERGA HOMINES BENEVOLENTIA,

A vacant page not being agreeable to the Author's |
— be 8 the _ wn not be di pleas'd 5

An ODE to CAND ok.

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NYOME ntle Candour, ſpread thy ning
Atound me whilſt I ſtrive to fing
My great Creator's name :
Thou for a trembling _ wilt feel,
C goodneſs ſhall her faults concen),
ds Or wth reluctance blame.
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| Siſter 8 with thy ſoft charm,
The eritick s hoſtile band diſarm,
| And ſmooth his threat'ning brow ;
Partner of heav'n-deſcended Peace,
, "oy thy ble triumphs ſtill increaſe
| Till all to thee my bow.
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Thon haſt a thouſand pleaſing arts 972
To) join divided hands and hearts | ©
"3 In the ſoft bonds of love: * £
The Serpent's wiſdom. dwells in thee
With all the ſweet ſimplicity L
„Tat marks the harmleſs Dove, |
0 eforious church! O bleſſed day!
ö When Wiſdom ſhone with pureſt ray,
, *Thatw1sn2o0M FROM ABQVE;
Not heathens could their wonder hide,
But quite amaz'd, they ſtood and cry'd
How much theſe Chriſtians Love 1
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Sway'd * thy lows; the chriſtian name
No more ſhall be.expos'd to ſhame _
T Thro' Diſcord's furious rage;
But Charity ſhall mount her throne,
: Apt whilſt ſhe makes her beauties buen

hall form a golden age.
Juan, iii. 17.

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DORE, ye ſaints, the king of love 98

Alaſs ! how faulty are the beſt 156
Almighty God the heavens 12
Amazing love! God has not fpard 108
Aſcend, my ſoul with willing ſteps
Aſham d of Chriſt! my ſoul diſdains
Author of life ! with grateful heart
Awake, my ſoul, rouſe all thy powers
Awake, my ſoul, and gladly — . 9 b
Awake, my tongue, thy tribute ring
Awake, my ſluggiſh ſoul, awake

Awake, my ſoul, caſt off thy floth- | |
Awake, my ſoul, lift OP thy eyes

; B* EHOLD the Sentra fight

Behold the fon of Gd
Behold the lamb-of God
Behold the prince of

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Behold the Father's mdechis gate

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Behold: Gers deareſt urn N
Behold the love of Chriſt 102
Behold from realms of light 232
| Behold the vain, voluptuous man 131
Behold the Chriſtian warrior arm'd 188
Behold how ts bowels move 168
Behold he comes the judge appears
Bleſt news to us, a Child is born 77
Bleſt, O my Saviour, were thoſe eyes 113
Bleſt is the man whoſe humble faith 195
Bleſt-is the man who always ſets 246
Bleſt is the mem' ry of the juſt 191
Bleſt are the ſaints that dwell above 227
Bleſt land where truth 0 fair 243
Bleſt are the ſons of peace 265
Bluſh, Atheiſts, blulh yo — airy 1 133
Boaſt not, ye nobles of the earth 2173
Britons, with thankful hearts adore 59.
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God?“ 10 ——
Come all my powers unite 262
Come join with me to praiſe che Lord 48
Come, ye that thirſt, to living ſtreams 165
Come, for the king of heaven invites 250
Come ye that have receiy'd 184
Come let us praiſe our heavenly king 247
Come ye that thirſt to living —— 167
Come let our chearful ſongs adore 253
Complaints be gone, ye all are vain 2113
Conſtrain'd, ye ſaints, by ſacred loye 182
Teqntentent, !; tis that art divine 198

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TERNATL God, in evry 5 ; 6
E Eternal God, thou king ſupreme 8
xert, my ſoul,” thy nobleſt powrs AS
Extended on rr ly tree 7
ATHER' of li ghts ! thou ſource of Tm,
E. good“! 61
ather of h lights, thaw ſource off love! 4
Far from hi facher houſe bebe 145
Forſake, my foul; this meaner earth 4
F rom thee, my God, all bleſfings flow 43
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LORY to God, who reigns above! 46

God of my life ! my morning ſong 44

Goa of my life 1” my heart inſpire 154
Great God! with awe and with delight 5
Great God | thy vaſt and deep deſigns 39
Great God! aſſiſt my feeble lays 21
Great God ! thou firſt, and beſt of all 68
Great God of grace! ariſe and ſhine 137
Great parent of the univerſe! 22
Great 1s the Lord, his Power is great 38
Go: to the earth, it loudly peaks 157

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H. I the tongues which we uſe 69
Hail happy morn ! whoſe early ray 50
Happy, thats ba Py is the man! —
Happy beyond deſcription he!
Happy the man n whok e cautious eps! 1 1210
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ECEIV'D by empty meu ob bliſs 175

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Hark ! from the garden comes a ſound 95

He reigns, th' Almighty reigns ſupreme 41
He bleeds, the Saviour bleeds and dies 109

He bled— the Saviour bled, and dy'd 127

He lives, the great Redeemer lives 187
He'll come, the Judge will ſurely come 233

Hear, mortals, hear tis wiſdom ſpeaks 164
Hear whilſt the ſaint his triumph ſings *
Holy and rev'rend is the name

Fonour from blood let mortals claim 177 j

How various are thy works, O Lord!

How glorious, Lord, are all thy works! 258
How matchleſs, Lord, thy glories are! 32

How richly, Lord, doſt thou diſpenſe? 65

low wond'rous pure the goſpel is? 138

Tow happy are the faints ? 23 8
ow little we poor mortals know?
low condeſcending, on how oy ? 53

111. wait on thee, my God 42
Immortal pearls! delightful bund 149

vain, great God! in vain I tr 28
In joyful ſtrains ye Britons fing 242
In outward forms and coſtly 1 — 192
1 come, the great Redeemer cries 238
It is my Saviour's voice I hear 111
It muſt be fo——tis heaven $ decree . 72 19
| Jehovah reigns, thou earth rejoice |
; is gone within the veil 15
us, how precious is thy name!

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us, why ſhould we eat and drink? 1 47

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Jeſus, the g great High- Prieſt bale 123

* Jeſus this feaſt provides | 120

Join voices, all ye 2 and ſing 126
Fg Nate the words that Jeſus ſpeaks 181

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Er the unthinking many cry —-*"
Let a gay choughtleſs world deſpiſe 205
Let Jews & Greeks the croſs blaſpheme 106
Let not the humble faint deſpair. 207
Let nature feel ſome deeper wound | 203 |
Let ſuperſtitions gloomy ſons | |
Let Jews and Greeks my Saviour ſcorn 1 4
Let my bleſt Saviour's doctrines give 264 3
Liſten, my ſoul, the king of heavn 148
Look up, my foul, direct thy e 8 17
Look up, ye mourning ſaints, and view 252.
Long as I live thy praiſe, my God 37
Lobg had the nations fat |
Lord tis beyond the pow'rs of eue 77
Lord, waſt thou ſtrict to mark our crimes 146
Lord, throꝰ the dubious 1 of life 45
Lord, ere the e ced is fown 261

ARK how the frift-wing'd minutes

fly 5
Methink: the laſt great day is come 2 2
Miſled by error Adam's ſons 134
Mortals give ear, the awful day 231

Moſt holy God, thou judge ſupreme 244
| Mount up my though & chearful view 44 |
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My God, of ev'ry good the ſpring 13

My God, my times are in thy hands 67
My God, I own thy right divine 70
My Saviour's works all glorious ſhine 93
My foul purſues no vulgar theme 234
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My ſoul, my gratetal pow'rs awake 86

I TOT to his heay'n the God of grace 58
Not for a fading crown we ſtrive 170

Not names, nor forms, nor modes of
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Not from relentleſs fate's dark womb 214
No rod of vengeance Jeſus takes 88
Nor law, nor prophets to deftroy - 94

Now let the church glad homage pay 241
Now, Lord, the heavenly ſeed is fown 261

How endearing is the name 40

O happy time! auſpicious morn! 80

O for a tongue like thoſe aboye! 210

O ſtupid Naz'reth ! not to ſee I55

O bleſſed ſouls that feel! 260
Of all the paſſions of the mind 72

Once was the great Redeemer plung'd 239
Our earchly h what are they? 73

TYARDON—O ſweet reviving word! 208
P Peace! tis awordof heavenly ſound 189
Pilgrims and ſtrangers on the earth 171
Plain is the road, my God YEe
Prepare, ye ſaints, to meet your Lord 152
Praiſe ye the Lord, my ſoul ſhall praiſe 20
Purſue, my ſoul the wond'rous theme 90

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UIT, O my foul, the eartn 131
Quit, Otiny ſoul, chy earthly Cares oy

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Redemption! O bleſt news for man! 166
Religion ne'er by art was formd 240

Riſe, O my ſoul, purſue-the path. 190
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QAurariox--0 the pleaſing found ! 256
kJ Searcherof hearts, thy piercing eye 169
See Gabriel ſwift deſcend to earth 144

See Iſrael's ſons their coaſts around 113
See how the little toiling ant 158
See how the haughty Phariſee 147

Strange! that the children of this world 172

Strange! O my Saviour, that blind zeal 212

Surpriz'd I view my Saviour's life 97

Sweet fruits afflictions bring, E. thoſe 21 5
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„ thy wonders ſtill we view 9 I
The goſpel, like another ſun 135
The day, O God, the night is thine - 49
The wond'rous pow'r of faith divine 193

The gen'ral voice of men attend 62
The prince of peace is come 79
The glorious triumphs of the croſs 133
The rolling year, Almighty God 654
The ſun is ſet the day that's paſt 47
The ſun in his unwearied courſe 248

The icy chains that bound the earth 35
The eme by heav'n foretold is come 1
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The God of peace! niy ſoul admire 206
The time draws nigh, my ſoul, when thous 30
The day, the folemn day ſhall come 236
The night is paſt, the doleful ſhades 254.
"Tis the Lord's day, awake my foul Ti
*Tis nature's voice which reaſon ſpeaks 3
' "Tis finiſtd O important word! 104
Tis finiſn'd the Redeemer cries 105

Tis Jeſus the great maſter ſpeaks 124

There is an heavenly Paradiſe 226
There is a city large and fair 237
Thou art, O God! a ſpirit pure 8

Thou rul'ſt fupreme; Almighty God! 34
FThro' the wide world thy glories, Lord 12
This do in mem'ry of your Lord 118
This is the feaſt that Jeſus makes 116
This facred feaſt we keep 122
Thus ſaith the high and lofty one 176
Thy goodneſs, Lord, fhall be my ſong 23
Thy goodneſs, Lord, how great! 24

Thy influence, mighty God, is felt 140
To thee, my God, thou fource of good! 45
To Jeſus our aſcending king 130
To day attend, ye ſons of men 161

To praiſe the ever-bounteous Lord 56

To God the Lord new ſongs addreſs 14

F-TNHAPPY youth ! whoſe ſteps no
* more 163
Up far beyond theſe lower ſkies 60

Upheld, my God, by thine own hand 66
Vain world with all thy buſy cares 52
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WE ſing the honours of the day 132
We ſing our Saviour s love 123
Well tis an empty dream I ſee 63
Well “tis a dull and tedious round 200
Were all the tongues of men my oon 209
What is there on this earthly ball? 128
What wonder's this? methinks I fee; 92
What reſt on earth? O empty dream! 201
What can we find beneath the ſun? 215
What joy poſſeſt my heart! 19
What wond'rous love is this? 178
When the whole earth became corrupt 194
When men pretending to be wiſe 3
When Sodom's rich and guilty plains 26
When gentle ſpring renews the earth 139
When ſome kind ſhepherd from his fold 142
When Iſrael's ſons, a murm'ring race 141
When I review thy mercies, Lord 259
When pious Laz'rus breath'd his laſt 221
When in the clearer light of faith 196
When I with curious eyes ſurvey 257
Whence, O my ſoul, theſe gloomy fears? 179
Whence, O my ſoul, this dread of death?220
Why are not ſinners, Lord, confum'd? 27
Why ſhould I be fo very fond? 218
Why ſhould the faint be. griev'd to find? 223
Wiſdom how beauteous is her form! 160

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Ye ſervants of the Lord 18

Ye lands of ev'ry tongue and name 15
Ye humble ſaints proclaim abroad 29

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x Hymn
ve * that love the Lord 3
Ye ſons of Adam join PS

Ye younger tribes of Adam's race 159
Je pious fouls o erwhelm'd with woes 180

Ye Thins the man of ſorrows view 99
Ye humble followers of the lamb 112
Ye anxious cares forſake my breaſt 75
Ter-—they abe bleſt, 2 1 dead are bleſt 222

EAL, *tisa ſweet and charming name2 11
Zion beirn your king 101

HYMNS

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I. Long Metre;

Defiring to praiſe God like the Angels.
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God of ev'ry good the ſpring,
Tune thou my lips thy praiſe to ſing;
The work of Heav'n, it's higheſt joy,
Shall my glad heart and tongue employ.

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*Tis pleaſant Lord to ſing thy praiſe,
And talk of all thy wond'rous ways;
When day new-born chears mortal ſight,
And when thy ſun withdraws his light,
| 221 | III. | 32
Angels that bright celeſtial quire,
Thy praiſes ſing, nor faint nor tire;
Not one is ſeen with harp unſtrung,
Nor is there found a ſilent tongue.

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With ſuch an ardour warm our hearts,
And we will then perform our parts:

Me ll join on earth thy hoſts above,
Who always ſing, _ always love.

Tho! nature's pow'rs may droop and faint,
Our glowing ſouls ſhall upwards pant ;
The heav'nly work we will renew,
And wiſh to ſing as 2, do.

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But, O how bleſt will be the da,
When we ſhall drop th* encumb'rigg clay !

And join with angels round the throne,

In ſtrains to mortal ears unknown.

II. Common Metre. :
The Being of God the voice of univerſal nature.
Aus nature's voice which reaſon ſpeaks,
Know man there is a Gd;
That great firſt cauſe who made the world,
And rules it by his nod.
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The mighty truth unſhaken ſtands,
And ſcorns the Atheiſt's ſchool;
His boaſted ſenſe and wit but prove
He is the learned fool. ;
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Far as with back ward ſteps we trace
Great nature's wond'rous R
Me mult at length ſtop at ſome cauſe
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This cauſe eternal we maintain, - |
And this the God we name; iqo: |
Of all perfection full poſſeſt,
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A God, thie wiſer nations own,
Barbarians too conſent; |
Convinc'd by natute's wond'rous frame,
That mighty wc." al
. | The God, the preſent God we ſee,
Where er we turn our eyes
In faireſt lines his name is wrote
On earth, and ſeas, and ſkies.
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Almighty God! I thee adore,”
Great rats of my frame;
Long as I live my tongue ſhall ſing
The glories of thy name.

III. Common Metre.
The Unity of W Deut. vi. 4.

WW EX: mien pretending to be wiſe | *

Forſook plain nature's rule,

Their minds in an) mazes es.

The man became the fool. N

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Tho' nature ſhew'd the one ſupreme,
Fancy ſoon marr'd her book ;

And fe the God than made the workde

His various works miſtook. 4 | (.
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_ Then man is made divine; |
VE Each people form their guardian God,
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The nations ſtill more i omg grow, |

And turn to very Stoc iy
The learn'd Egyptian's God behold,

It is a grazing 8. . A Ss”
Bluſh ffracl, bluſh, the choſen ſeed.

Into like madneſs run; *
Iſrael firſt ſav d, then bid to hear

; The W RIRGE. Wes. 24
Their Gods above, and Gods below,
Let Heathen nations frame; . WY
One is our God, and Father doo.

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Waxkx my tongue, thy tribute * .

To him who gave thee power vn 1

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The ource of light, of truth and love.

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Foul are abi henne compar 4 with him,

And all their glorious lights are dim; 2 :

Angels have ſpots in his pure ſight,
And darkneſs veils theſe ſons of light.

Angels and men, &c.
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What man, or mightier angels dare?
A thouſand worlds he can create,
Or with his breath annihilate.

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He wounds, he heals, he kills and faves,

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The ſtars he numbers, and their names
He gives to all theſe * flames.
Angels and men, &c.
VI.

The future, wrapt in darkeſt night, NY

Is always preſent to his fi ght;
Nature's extent his eyes pervade,

And piercethrough helFsmoſt ä ſhade.

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His ſon, his beſt below d he gave

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Angels and men, &c.

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The Eternity of God. Pſ. xc. 1, 2.

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Our ſouls attempt an arduous Ton” »
Thee, great eternal! we adore,
Who art that ſea which knows no _—
II.

Before the : azure ſky-was ſpread,

Or the huge mountain rear d its 8
Or golden fun was pla&d on high,

Thy — was thine Oy.

Days,

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Days, weeks, months, years, and ages too,
Are but a moment in thy vie w-,
To thee, whoſe eyes all time ſurvey,
Thouſands of years 5 as one day.

Thy days did ne er beginning knom-,
Thy years no changes undergo;

To thee the firſt, to thee the laſt,
Alike's the preſent, * the paſt.

Nature and time ſhall boch. expire, U 1 1

And earth and ſeas be loſt in fire;
Sun, moon, and ſtars, ſhall loſe their ir gh,
And all be one WA ht night.

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But thou in light haſt thine abode,
And art to everlaſting God: |
Let earth and ſeas, and ſkies be gone,
Thy endleſs ages muſt run on.

4 VI. .
God's Eternity improved.
I.

\TzRNAL God! in ev'ry age,
In human life through every ſtage,
Thy be truth, and power endure,
A refuge near, and always ſure.

Rejoice ye righteous, and 8

On God your ever living friend;

Eternal os be fee can never faing.

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Eternal power incens'd to ſnun?
What vengeance cannot he require,

Who is himſelf conſuming fire.

VII. Common Metre.
God W Job xi. 7.

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Thou feeble child 158 5

Oanſt thou his matchleſs glories

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II.

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The ſplendors of his throne

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Thy greatneſs is unſearchabie, ER ITS
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And judgment is thy throne. HO TIT Lo
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Wond'rous and wiſe are all the works
Of thine almighty hand;
The thunder of thy awful pow'r
Who Lord can underſtand * ?

VII. Long Metre,” I
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Inviſible to mortal eyes
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The great, the wo the only: wiſe,
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II.
Whilſt nature changes, and her works
Corrupt, decay, diſſolye and die,
Thy eſſence pure no change .
Secure of ö
Thou inviſihle! what hand
Co ok; thy i * ſpotleſs fair?
To what in heaven, to what on
Can men th” MT king compare ik

Let ſtupid Heathens frame their gods

Of gold and filver, wood and ſtone;

Ours is the God that made the heavens, |
Jehovah He, and a '

My ſou), thy pureſt 3 ', 5
In truth and ſpirit him adore:
More ſhall, this pleaſe than ſacrifice, ..
Than outward J 4 delight him more.
IX. Common Metre.

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So praiſe thy name divine. 4

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And all harmonious roll, 8
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Move round each RY _—_

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And chears the wy night.
The fruitful earth, bleſt by thy hand.
Pours out her rich ſupplies; *
The hills, and vales ſhout forth thy praiſe,
And echo to the -
Theſe praiſe thee all, yet neer can know
The ay 5 of their frame;
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Their number who ſhall name?

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The heavens, a canopy moſt fair,
Thy wiſdom, Lord, hatk ſpread;
Thy hands have poiz'd, the ſame ſupport
The globe whereon we tread,
V.

Sun, moon, and planets great and ſmall,

Thy high commands obey;
Along th' =therial plains ”"— run,
Nor ever miſs their way.
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Various their orbs, yet never claſh,
But all harmonious move;
As tho! by active ſouls inſpir'd,
And ſway d by n love.

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Birds, beaſts and fiſh, and creeping things
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In our ſtupendous frame
May all the powers which thou haſt Sn
Unite to praiſe thy name.

XI. Long Metre. A
A F of the creation. Gen. i.
I.
OO up, my ſoul, direct thy eyes.
To him who dwells above the ſkies;

th your glad. notes his praiſe rehearſe
ku form'd the mighty univerſe. 5
II.

He ſpoke, and from the womb of night
At once ſprang up the chearing light;
Diſcord him heard, and at his-nod ;
Beauty awoke, and ſpoke-the God,
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The Word he gave, th' obedient ſur
Began his glorious race to run;
Nor ſilver moon, nor ſtars delay
To glide along th ætherial way.
AV.
Teeming with er air, earth and fea
Obey th' Almi ty 's high decree ;
To ev'ry riboſe gives their food,
Then Ne the whole exceeding good.
V.

But to compleat the wond'rous plan,

From earth and duſt he faſhions man;

In man the laſt, in him the beſt,
The maker's image ſtands confeſt.

Th : Lord,

24 H TI M NN XII.
Lord, whilſt thy glorious works I view,
Form thou my heart and foul anew;
Here bid thy pureſt light to ſhines
And beauty glow with charms divine.

XII. Common Metre.
The 8th , Pſalm imitated.
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HRO'thewide world thy glories, Lord, 7
Salute our wond' ring eyes; 9
But not to earth confin'd, they far 3
Tranſcend the lofty ſkies,
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When I the vaſt expanſe ſurvey, |
With all it's worlds of light;
Thy ſun ordain'd to rule the day,
Thy moon and * = night:
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EY —_ is ſinful . ?
Form'd from the duſt on which he treads,
Whoſe days are but a ſpan. |
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Thy tender viſits ſhare? 9
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Thy various honours crown his head,
Thy bleſſings fill his hands;

His foul to angels near a-kin,

And next in rank he ſtands,

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VI.
To him haſt thou wide empire given,
And bid him rule for thee, _ _
The tribes that fill the air and earth, +
And thoſe e ; be AIST 1
The flocks and herds. large tribute pay
To their deputed king;
And birds and fiſh of various kinds
Their thouſand bleſſings bring.
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Shall — thyrlofty praiſe z |
Silent thy foes ſhall hear their ſong,
And at the ſueklings *
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Throꝰ the wide world thy glories, Lord,
Salute our wond'ring eyes;
But not to earth confin'd, they far
Tranſcend the —y ies. |

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glories of thy name;
The fun es 1 thouſand rays
And moon and ſtars HERE; thy As |
The ſilent night, the chearful day
Thy wondrous {kill and power diſplay ;
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To ate their: PEAT, all divine.
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They talk to men in ſtrains ſublime; |
What tho' no tongue in them is found. ..
In reaſon's ear they Ps ſoun.

From the fair chambets of the eaſt,
In beauty like a bridegroom dreſt,
Thy ſun comes forth with radiant face,
And like the mighty Fm his race.

Rejoicing in his ſtrength he flies,
And haſtens to the weſtern ſkies; _ : -
Pleas'd, like his maker, to beſtow 5
His light e below..
But with a glory more divine
We ſee thy bleſſed goſpel ſnine??
Eternal truth unveils her face,
To win our ſouls to gn embrace.
II.

Thy law is perfect, ſpotleſs pure;

Thy ſtatutes right, thy judgments ſure ; .
Light to the eyes, 5 to the heart
The nobleſt joys N impart.

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XK 7 HO all his errors can recount ?
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O thou whoſe eyes ſee all within!
Cleanſe me from DNR fin.
Keep thou my foul for &ver far
From crimes that more preſumptuous are;
Releas'd from ſin's imperious reign,
I hate the tyrant _ the chain. 2

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Thy pard' ning grace ſhall make me whole,
Nor ſhall great guilt affright my ſoul,
Whilſt conſcience, with approving voice,
Shall ſpeak and bid as heart rejoice.
O may each thought within my mind,
And all my words acceptance find;

Receive the off rings, Lord, I bring,
My ſtrength, my ſaviour, and my king.
XIV. Long Metre.
The 96th Pſalm. Firſt part.
3 I.

1 God the Lord new ſongs addreſs,

His name let all the nations bleſs;
In grateful accents day by day
His ſaving power and grace diſplay.
His glorious deeds let Heathens hear,
And learn Jehovah's name to fear;

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Great is the Lord, and be his praiſe
Great as his N name and ways.
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No idol Gods muſt ever claim
The honours due to his great name;
: He made the heavens, and rules alone,
Nor will with idols ſhare the throne.
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Honour and maar divine,
Around him in full glory ſhine;
And in his ſacred courts below,
Beauty and ſtrength before him go.

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Glory and ftrength to God aſcribe ;

With willing hands your off rings bring,

And in his courts his glories ſing.
VI.

O come his favour to implore,

In holy beauties him adore ,

Let all the nations far and near,

The God of all the earth revere.

XV. Long Metre.
The 100th Pſalm.
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The praiſes of the Lord proclaim;
With hearts and tongues united ſing
The honours of your God and king.

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Approach ye ſaints, with willing feet,
To his majeſtic glorious ſeat ;

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HY M N XVI. Wa».
Let heavenly joy throughout each quire,
The muſick and the verſe inſpire.
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Know that the Lord is God alone.
His hands have form'd you, not your own Th
Your ſhepherd he, and you the

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His gracious hands both feed and _

IV.
Unto his temple-gates repair,
With grateful hearts to praiſe him there ;
And whilſt ye tread the hallow'd ground,
Let all his courts with praiſe reſound.

V. |
His goodneſs ſing, it reigns ſupreme,
His mercy flows a conſtant ſtream ;
The truth that makes his promiſe fure,
To endleſs ages ſhall endure.

XVI. Common Metre. |
The 103d Pſalm. 1-----8,

I.
Waxz my ſoul, rouze all thy powers
A To bleſs the God of heaven;
Nor let my grateful ſong forget
A ſingle bleſſing given.
IL.
When preſs'd with guilt, his pitying eye
Beheld the inward ſmart;
He freely pardon'd all thy ſins,
And heal'd thy wounded heart.
III.
When pain and anguiſh. bow'd thee down,
He came for thy relief;
He

5 H Y M N XVII.

He did ſupport thy fainting ſoul
And heal thy 2 grief.
V

Thy dubious life he has redeemd
And ſnatch'd thee from the grave
Thy head up- rais d he crown'd with love; ;

And youthful W gave.

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She ſpreads her * wing.
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The Lond from his rich bounty fills
Thy mouth with needful food;
And to thy daily 0 adds
Variety of good.
VII.
The Lord from his exalted ſeat,
Hears the oppreſſed groan; |
Their righteous cauſe he will defend,
And make his juſtice known. .
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The law by Moſes' hand he gave
Unto the choſen race;
But by his only ſon he ſent,
The volume of his e.

XVII. Peculior Metre.
7 11305 Pſalm.

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Yu flints and ſervants of the Lord,
Who hear and do his holy word,

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HT MN - XVIL 21.
With your beſt ſongs his throne addreſs :
Ye angels who with joy fulfill
'The higher orders of his will,
His glorious name * 25 bleſs.
Nations beneath the ſource of day.
Who ſee the ſun's firſt glad' ning ray,
And ye beneath the ſetting ſun,
With hearts and tongues united ſing,
Your maker God, your heavenly king,
*Till time itſelf his race has run.
| III.
Who of his ſhining hoſts ſhall dare,
With him th' Mighty to compare? a
Whom earth nor ſpacious heavens confine
He reigns ſupreme, exalted high -
Above the earth above the fley,
And claims our honours moſt divine.
BF: - IV.
His glories are ſo matchleſs great.
Tis far beneath his lofty ſtate
To mind what angels do above; ö
How great then is that richer grace
To dwell with man of ſinful race, |
Who can conceive ſuch wond'rous love?
, |

*When pious parents ſee their heirs,
The objects of their tender cares,
By virtuous deeds to honour ſoar,
Joyous the parents hope their ſeed
Will live the cauſe of God to plead
When they on earth thall be no more.

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the turn he has ventured to give this verſe,

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From the mean duſt he lifts the poor
To fit with princes near the throne :
Let high and low his grace record,
Let young and old adore the Lord,
And make his boundleſs glories known.

XVIII. As the 148th Pſalm.
The 113th Pſalm.
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E ſervants of the Lord,

On earth that do his Will,
Ye angels who rejoice

His orders to fulfill;
With your. beſt ſongs
His throne addreſs,
And never ceaſe
His name to bleſs,
II.
Ye nations that behold.
The early fun ariſe, |
And ye who dwell remote,
Beneath the weſtern ſkies,
With heart and tongue
United ſing
Your maker God,
Your heavenly king.
. III.
Who ſhall with him compare ?
How bright his glories ſnine!
Our higheſt praiſe he claims,
Our honours moſt divine :

H -S XIX. 23

He retgris ſupreme,
Exalted high,
Above the earth,
Above rhe ſky.
IV.
"Tis far beneath his ſtate,
The things in heaven to view;
He greatly condeſcends
To ſee what angels do;
Yet lower ſtoops,
O wondrous grace
To dwell with men,
A ſinful race.
V.

. He from the daft exalts

The men of low eſtate ;
And makes the needy fit
With princes in the gate:
Let high and low
His grace record,
And ever bleſs
The ſov'reign Lord.

XIX. As the 148th Pſalm.
The 122d Pſalm.
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W joy poſſeſt my heart?
What tranſport id J feel?
To hear my pious R
Expreſs their holy zeal:
To Zion's hill
Let us repair;
To pay our vows,
And worſhip there.

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With willing * well 80,
Within her gates we'll ſtand;
Zion, thy courts we love
The glory of our land;
In our eſte m
Thy anch are
Divinely rich,
Divinely fair.
III.
How pleaſant tis to ſee
The thronging tribes afcend ?
With holy longings there
The ſacred hours to ſpend; |
Where God recor
His gracious name,
His ſaints may lay
Their humble claim.
IV.
Here David's greater ſon,
Maintains his royal throne ;
The king of righteouſneſs
Here makes his glories known;
To earth he came
From realms above,
To rule the world
With truth 5 love.
For Zion's peace, ye ſaints,
Your fervent pray'rs unite ;
Be this your a by day,
Your pleaſure this by night :
Zion, thy ſons _
Which love thee beſt,
Shall in thy peace
Be greatly bleſt.

VI. For

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For our dear brethien? s ſake,
Zion, we with thee peace;
Proſper, O proſper long,
And may thy ſons increaſe,
We ſeek thy good,
We love the road |
Which leads us to e
God's bleſt abode. | |

XX. common Metre.
T, be 14665 Pſalm.

I.
Pie ye the Lord, my ſoul ſhall bmi
My God, and heavenly King;
Long as my heaving lungs ſhall move
My tongue his 7 all ung.

Vain is the truſt we Te, in men,
The noble and the brave;
Princes, who make their boaſt of ru.
Have not an arm to ſave.
mn.
Their breath departs, to earth they turn
A putrid maſs of clay;
Their pomp, their power and airy ſchemes
All vaniſh in a day.
IV.

But bleſt is he whom Jacob's God
Defends from threat” ning, harm ;
Whoſe hutnble faith and hope relies
On God's almighty arm. af

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The God that made the lofty heavens, «+»
And ſpread the flowing ſeas, ' |
He that hath form'd their hoſts can do
W hate er his heart _ pleaſe.
The Lord will plead for the oppreſt,
His truth for ever reigns; _-
The Lord will fill the hungry ſoul,
And break the + wk chains.
VII.
The Lord reſtores the blind to ſight;
The ſtranger he'll defend:
The mourning widow he relieves,
And is the orphan's friend.
VIII.
He loves his faints, ſupports the weak
When ſorrows ſink them low;
But ſinners and their wicked ſchemes
The Lord —_—
Zion thy God for ever reigns,
With joy his grace record;
Whilſt circling ages run, ye ſaints,
Adore and praife the Lord.

XXI. Long Metre. ' |
Defring not to degrade Cod in attempting bis

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With thy pure light all ade . pel,
Andev'ry inward tumult quell. Exalt

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Degrade thee _— praiſe I ſing.

Thy glories ſhall proclaim,
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Exalt my ſoul, my breaſt inſpire, r
Touch thou my hps with ſacred fire;
Nor let me more, eternal king, v4

Great parent, ruler, Lord of all,

Before whoſe throne bright ſeraphs fall,

To thee I bow; and thankful own m

The grace that _ to thy throne,
V.

But how ſhall mortal tongue unfold

Glories which angels can't behold ?

Well may thy glories me ſurprize, |

When ſhining angels veil their eyes. |
V. © |

But tho? thy glories ſhine too bright

E'en for thy elder ſons of light;

Yet, Lord, thy works ſhall thee proclaim;

And here we'll read thy wond'rous name.
VI. ö

Thee, in thy offspring, we will view,

Through ſtarry worlds the God purſue;

With nature's voice we'll chearful join

Tue Univerſal Parent. To
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All nature ſpeaks thy name;
Angels in ſtrains unknown to men

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Thy image on my foul inſtamp'd

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II.
Thy breath theſe nobler ſpirits form'd, a
Tis with thy ray s they ſhine; 5 |
In theſe thy fairer 1 we read |
The parent, all divine.
III.
Thy hand with niceſt art has fram'd
Our bodies from the clay;
Our nobler ſouls by thee —
Thy greater {kill diſplay.
IV.

Great Father! make me'thine f |
Shall ſpeak my _— divine.
Lovelieſt of parents! I adore

Thy rich adoptin love ;
Such grace my praiſe e exceeds and ſoars

My higheſt 3 above.
O may it be my wi ploy F
To do thy holy will; 1 | E/
Then wilt thou own me for r child, 1
And my: beſt hopes fulfill. l
XXIII. Long Metre. 9

The goodneſs of God. Pf. cxlv. 1, 16. cvii. 8. 2

I.
HY goodneſs, Lord, ſhall be my ſong,
Awake my heart, awake my tongue;
Come all my Powers, and chearful join
1 work ſo heavenly,” ſo divine.

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1 X M. N. XXI. 29
II.

The whole creation is thy care,

Both man and beaſt thy bounty ſhare;
The feather'd tribes, 8 finny brood
Receive alike their =_ from God. =_
Thy ſun-beams chear the ſluggiſh _uy
Thy rains and dews help nature's birth: | |
Each garden, wood, and fruitful field | -
Thy bleſſings in ſucceſſion yield. |
O that the ſons of men would raiſe
The grateful tribute to thy Praiſe! 85
Man with ſuperior favours bleſt
Should love thee . M ferve rhee belt.
Why was he form'd with nobler mind
If not to higher ends defign'd ?
Let ravens cry, and lions 1
But man contemplate and adore. |
VT.
Man, the creation's king and pie,
Should offer praiſe for all the reſt;
His tongue, 'the glory of his frame
Should ceaſeleſs ling his maker's name.
VII.
Redeeming grace, in each rich ſtream,
Will ever be his higheſt theme
Be this my ſong, G God of love!
On earth below, in n heaven above. |

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5» HY MN XXIV.

XXIV. Short Metre,
The fame.
I goodneſs, Lord, how great ?
Hew worthy of my ſong? ?
Awake my heart, to this great theme
The nobleſt ſtrains belong.
The whole creation, Lord,
Depends upon thy care;
Both man and beaſt, with fiſh and birds,
Thy various m— ſhare.
5 1
Thy quick' ning ſun- beams chear
The cold and ſenſeleſs earth;
Thy gentle rains and foſt'ring dews
Help teeming 8 birth.
V.
Dreſt in the richeſt green
The fields and gardens ſmile;
Thy herbs and ripen'd fruits repay
The labourer's * and toil.
O all ye human tongues
Come, in the concert join
Man with ſuperior favours crowd
Should ſing with notes divine.
VI.
His nobler mind was form'd
A ſacred ſong to raiſe;
Ravens can cry and lions roar,
But man can only praiſe,

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Man, the ereation's prieft,

Should ſing for all the reſt;

His tongue, the glory of his frame,
Should praiſe his maker beſt. _

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His moſt exalted ſong F *
Is ſtill redeeming love;

Be this my ſong whilſt here below,
And this my ſong above.

XXV. Common Metre.

An holy God to be reverently worſhipped.
TRE _ Ia. viii. 13.

OLY and reverend is the name
Of our eternal king ;
Thrice holy Lord the angels cry,
Thrice holy let us ſing !
II

Heaven's brighteſt lamps with him compar'd
Are mean and look but dim;
And angels fair have too their ſpots
When once compar'd with him.
1
Holy is he in all his works,
And truth is his delight;
But ſinners and their wicked ways
Shall periſh from his fight.
IV.
Holy the temple where of old
Th' Almighty fix'd his reſt;
Sacred his altar with it's fire,
And holy every prieſt,

But

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Our God no more doth prize,
The humble heart his temple is,
| And prayer the ſacrifice.
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| My ſoul pay to thy Gd.
| Lift with the hands a holy heart
| To his ſublime abode.
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With ſacred awe pronounce his name
Whom words nor thoughts can reach,
5 A broken heart ſhall pleaſe him more
Than the beſt forms of ſpeech.
VIII.
Thou holy God! preſerve my ſoul
From all pollution free;
The pure in heart are thy delight,
And they thy face ſhall ſee.

XXVI. Common Metre. T4
Cod a righteous * Gen. xviil. 23.

W HEN ae » tick but guilty NOM .
To wrath divine were doom'd, 4
Abram the patriarch interp * | JY
And thus his plea afſum'd. - 3
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And undiſtinguiſh'd lie? 3
Far be this ever from the God 22
That rules above the ſky.

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& Shall not the] vage of al the earth,
Whom righteous acts delight;
Shall not the ſpring whence Juſtice flows
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Thus did the holy patriarch plead
With zeal, with pity warmz
And ſaw with joy juſt Lot preſety'd
From the Ca ſtorm.
Let God in wrath deſtroy a land,
Or drown in floods a world;
Guilty they were and did deſerve
In ruin to be hurl' d.
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What tho' the ſaint ſometimes may ſmart
Beneath a heavier rod?
He that infliets the blow is ſtill
A juſt and righteous God.
| VII.
The ways of heaven, dark as they ſeem,
Are not without their light ;
The laſt, that brighteſt day of truth.
Will ſhew that all i is righgt.

XXVII. Comms Metre.
The Divine Patience. Rom. ii. 4.
TEN J.

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And thy rich grace deſpiſmm
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Could even Sodom the impure | 1
Have nam'd ten righteous men; 1
Thy flaming ſword in ſulphur dipt 4
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How often did thy anger bunn 4
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Bur ſtill thy heart within' thee turn d 1
For them thy bowels plead. _ 9
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My wrath on Iſrael vent? |
„How ſhall I Admah's * inflict ?
5 1pity and repent.”
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Our ſongs they far exceed; 'S
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Ere I can ſay they 1 oy own,

I cannot ſpeak but thou wilt hear,

My ſofteſt whiſpers reach thine ear;

All eye andear, all thought thou art,

And know'ſt each ſecret of my heart.
IV.

My private walks to thee are known,

In ſolitude Pm not alone; 0

+Awake, aſleep, at home, abroad

I am ſurrounded ſtill with God. le n
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a 36 H M N XXIX.
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Should I the s of light put on,
And in my on the ſun; _
ii Thy lengthen'd arm would overtake,
= Nor for a moment me forlake. |
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" Could I more ſwiftly fly than chooght
= To lands unknown and moſt remote;
Tho' chang'd my clime, my ſky, my air,
Thy preſence would. . me there.
To ſhades and darkneſs ſhould I run
| Which neer beheld the chearful ſun; -
In midnightdarkneſs ſhould I hide
Thou would'ft the vain attempt deride.

Thou canſt not need or fan or moon,
With thee tis a perpetual noon;

How can I from th y preſence flee 1
When midnight gloom is noon to thee? & 7
O may theſe thoughts i poſſeſs my ſoul,

And all my inward powers controul |

Then I'll rejoice that thou art nigh,
Nor OW! thy preſence wiſh to fly.

; XXIX. Long Metre.
be trutband a God. * I 9
I.

E. humble faints OE FTIR!

1 The honours of a faithful God,
ow juſt and true are all his ways,

How much above your higheſt praiſe?

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Of his own mind the image beat;

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As well might he his being 0

As break his oath, ＋ e forge

Let frighted rivers AIR their courſe,
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And mountains like 5 chaff be r
Let ſun and ſtars forget to riſe, BUS FOE
Or quit their ſtations in the ſkies; | *
Let heaven and earth both paſs away,
Eternal truth ſhall neer decay,
VI.

Firm as his throne his promule ſtands; | ey
For truth's the ſceptre in his hands
The men that love and fear his name
Shall always find his truth the ſame.
VII. —
True to his word, God gave his ſon,

To die for crimes which men had done ;
Bleſt pledge! he never will revoke ©

A Gingle promiſe he has —

H T M N XXX.
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The ſame as the 148th Pſalm.

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To praiſe his name unite ;
His truth and grace to ſing

Be ever your delight.
How juſt and true
Are all his ways,
How much above

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The words his ſacred lips

In ev'ry age declare
Of Hs own ſpotleſs mind
The perfect image bear.
What can him tempt
To lie, or cheat,
In nature free,
In bliſs compleat?
By his great ſelf he ſwears,
Himſelf he can't deny;
The ſource of truth and right
Can ge er repent orlie:
As well might he
_ His being quit
As break his oath
Or word forget.
Let rivers ceaſe to flow,
Or change their wonted courſe ,
Or backward let them run
To find their ſecret ſource;

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Let hills be hurl'd, — ES

And mountains huge

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Let fun and moon and ftars g of
Forget their time to riſe; 1
Or in a moment quit 35
Their ſtations in the ſkies my 138
Let heaven and earth . .
Both paſs away,
Eternal truth |;
Shall ne'er decay.
VI.
Firm as his throne of ſtate
His gracious promiſe ſtands;
For truth ſhall ever be i | |
The ſceptre in his hands;
-THE men ar ” + 0DTT T:
And fear his name
Shall ever find
His grace the ſame.
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True to his ſolemn word | |
He gave his only ſon;
Upon the croſs to bleed
For, crimes which men had done:
Bleſt earneſt this |
He'll not revoke
A ſingle world
_ His lips have ſpoke,

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e XXXI. Long Metre.

Cod the a 2 of a. James |

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Arn of nights ! thou ſource of loye!
All good deſcends from thee above;
In plenteous ſtreams thy favours flow,
Nor bounds wy 2 K nor meaſure know.
The ſun with his prolific rand... -
Almighty God! ſhall {| 2 thy praiſe;
Nature's great boaſt, — Sabin bright
Of thee thou uncreated light.
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Perpetual change on earth we ſee,
Nor is thy ſun from changes free ;
But thou ſupreme: art ſtill the ſame,
And truth and love * chy name.

IV.
Great intellectual fun! th y li li oht
Is ne*er obſcur'd by cloud or night;

What can thy light, thy heat impair
Thou perfect good, thou perfect fair Ks
V.

When time his deſtin'd race has run, 5
When night perpetual veils thy ſun,
When vanquifh'd by the laſt great fire

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The he imitation 0 Cd moral perfeftions. Mar.
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What mortal can with thee compare!
Angels can't boaſt an arm divine,
Or thunder with a vir" "+ like thine.
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n goodneſs, love and purity ;

ya too may thy bleſt image bear,
And ſhine in robes which angels wear.

III.
Great author of th immortal mind |
For nobleſt thoughts and views deſign 'd;
Make me ambitious to expreſs
The image of thy holineſs.

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Whilſt I thy boundleſs love admire
Grant me to catch the ſacred fire;
Thus ſhall my heavenly birth be known,
And for thy child IF wilt me own.
Father, I ſee thy ſun ariſe
To chear thy friends and enemies;
And when thy rain from heaven deſcends
Thy . both alike befriends.

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Enlarge my ſoul with love like Wine:
My moral powers by grace reſme;
So ſhall J feel another's woe,
And chearful feed an hungry foe.

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I hope for pardon through thy ſon
For all the crimes Which I have done:
O may the grace that pardons me
Conſtrain me to forgive like the.
God's ſupreme dominion. Pal. xcvii. 1. A 7
Enov an reigns, thou earth _rejoice,. .
Proclaim his praiſe with chearful voice:
Ye iſles the ſpacious earth around
To diſtant ſhores convey the found.
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Ye kings and princes him adore,
The ſource of all your ſov'reign power:
The meek he raiſes to a throne, _
And thruſts the hauf“ tyrant down.

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He pleads the juſt and righteous cauſe
| Of kings that govern by his laws:
4 And when the heroes take the field
w Heis their helmet, * ſhield.

_ = Let mighty kings their armies boaſt,
| Their thouſands are a feeble hoſt:
1 Let God the weak with ſtrength ſupply,
1 And five ſhall make * hundreds fly.
= The hearts of kings he turns with eaſe
| To do whate er his mind ſhall pleaſe :
As gentle ſtreams, with little force,
Will quickly change their wonted courſe.
BEE ah : Tremble,

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Tremble, than — (I thy. God,

Who ſmites whole kingdoms with his rod ;

As lightning ſwift his arrows fly,
And men by . gaſp and die.

Thy power, my ſow'reign Lord, I own,

And humbly bow before thy throne ; f

In thee I chearful put my truſt,

Great ruler, holy, good, and juft!

XXXIV. Long Metre.
Another on the ſame ſubject.

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{HOU rul ſupreme, almighty God!
Both earth and heaven obey thy nod :

Nor ſaints above, nor men below
Muſt dare to ſay, wi doſt thou fo ?
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Let God but ſpeak, it doth ſuffice,
The radiant ſun forgets to riſe : |
Or ſhining, in mid Heaven will Waal
Arreſted by his powerful hand.

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Empires and ſtates, both great and ſmall,
At his command or riſe, or fall;
The power that numbers all the ſtars
Regards our moſt minute affairs.

IV. |
What's beſt he knows, and what en fit,
Diſpute is vain, he ſaith ſubmit:
To thee, O God! I would relign
My ſoul, my all; thy will be mine.
FE Fa - - Truſting

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Truſting to thy ſyperior ſkill,
Thy precepts, Lord, may I fulfill:
In cleareſt light my duty place,
And I will run the — A
XXXV. Long Metre.

The enlargement of God's kingdom « rh.

Mat. vi. 10.

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WAKE r my ſoul and; gladly ng
A The 4 of thy God and king ; ;
Who reigns above the ſtarry wy
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His throne is . 7 foot-ſtool earth

To which his pow'rful word gave birth; 55

The pureſt light his robes compoſe,

And truth the ſceptre he has choſe.

III.

Myriads of angels round him wait,

His nobler miniſters of ſtate:

Fire, hail, and ſtorm obey his word,

TH inferior ſervants of their Lord.

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Sun, moon and ſtars ariſe and ſet,

And ne'er their orders they forget:

Rejoice, O earth! Jehovah reigns

The king of ſaints his throne maintains.

V.

The humble heart, that low abode

Is the beſt empire of my God :

Erect thy kingdom, r within,

And * thy grace ſubdue each fin.
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And thus thy empire w1 Lond ” —

To Gentile, Turk, and ſtubborn Jer, "2
Thou king of racy, 15 58 ſhew.
Where'er thy ſun, or light ariſe,

Thy name, O God! immortalize:

May nations yet unborn confeſs,

Thy wiſdom, power, and righteouſneſs,

XXXVI. Long Metre.
Angels paying their homage b fore the throne.

Wa. vi. 2, 3, ++
1
XERT my ſoul thy nobleſt pow'rs
raiſe th' eternal king:
The fruit 1 ſource of varied life,
Of good the conſtant ſpring.
II. | |
Up far above the ſkies he fits -- - |
On his exalted throne :
In heaven, on earth, thro? air and ſeas, -
He makes his glories known.
III.
Before his throne bright ſeraphs ſtand,
Thoſe miniſters of fire;
With love they burn, nor languor Know
For angels never tire.
IV.
Two wings their radiant faces veil
To pay the rev'rence meet:
A pair with holy care they ſpread
To cover cloſe their feet.

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Thrice holy Lord they ſing;
Whilſt with the muſick of their tongues
The heavenly On. ring.

My lips with thy pure fire!
My ſong muſt be divine, when thou
The muſick wilt inſpire.

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Wart my ſluggiſh ſoul, awake
Celeſtial guides thy pattern make;
Ambitious ſee the ſons of light,

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The peaceful courts of bliſs around:
Angels and ſaints harmonious join
In work and pleaſures all divine.
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Waiting to hear his Lord's commands:
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And do SS what's done above:
Angelick zeal, and ardor nem, + 7
And thus commence an angel too.

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The power of God in the . nature.
Pſal. xxix. 3, 4 7, 8.

I.

8 REAT i is. the Lord, his pow'r is great,
JF My tongue his mighty acts relate:

Adore and fear the ſor reign Lord,
Who rules all nature 117 his word.

He ſpeaks the gath'ring clouds obey ;
Thick darkneſs veils the face of day;
Swift light'nings burſt the pitchy cloud,
And awful thunders roar aloud.

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even the man Gabriel, whom I had-ſeen in the viſion at the
beginning, being cauſed to fly ſwiftly, touched me about
the time of the evening oblation. See Acts x. 30, 31.

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They ſeem to touch the very ſkies; .
Inſtant they plunge with dreadful nis,
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— His voice makes hills and mountains 5 ſhake:
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And cities fall with hideous craſh.
VI.
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The raging: waves are huſh'd to peace;
Nature her calmeſt looks puts on,
Well 1 the ſudden night is Sone.
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Great is the Lord, his pow'r is great;
My tongue his mighty acts relate;
Adore and fear the ſow'reign Lord,
Who rules all nature by his word.

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The majeſty and mercy of. God.

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Drawing nigh to God. Pial. lex, 28,
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Long as I live Pl call on thee,
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XIII. Common Mete.
Prqer and praiſe for temporal Welings. - PR
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To thee my life I o-.
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Thy wool me Has _- _ I eat,
Thy ſtreams my thirſt 1
Each night thou preadlt a — around,
EKind guardian 1 the day.
A friend, that med' cine ſweet of life,
To thee my God Lowe:
Health, credit, liberty. and peace
All from thy bounty flow.
IV.
Author of good! I prac thy name,
On thee I ſtill depend;
Give me this day my daily bread,
All needful * ſend.
If more thou giv'ſt, I thank thee Lord;
If leſs, ſtill kind thou art::
Content with this may I ſecure
That ſure and better Part.
VI.
Next to thy right may I have claim
To all that I call mine;
My honeſt laboyrs prof] per Lord,
Thus give me that is thine.

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All anxious cares that wound my peace,
Lord baniſn from my breaſt; |

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OD of my ne! in 7 my morning Kel
To henry chearful raiſe, |

Thy acts of love tis 800 3 ng.

And pleaſant tis to 8

Guardian of men ! thy * "; .- WE
Nor ſleep nor ſlumber know : *

Thine eyes pierce thro” the ſhades of night,

Intent on all —
III.

Suſtain'd by dee; my opening eyes 5

Salute the morning light;
Secure I ſtand unhurt by all
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Their wings around my head,
With thouſands more I might have been
Now number d 17 25 the dead. |

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To thee, my God Fal:
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Then ſhall I ſweetly cloſe the day,

Approv'd of thee. my Lord.

How happy ſhall I be, my God!.

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Te truely hv'd to day.” 2 74 5

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An evening ſong.
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My evening ſong, i is due;
Morning and noon and every night
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Which me this day has kept ?
A thankful heart's: — leaſt return,
And this thou wilt accept.
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I may this day have done,
I would confeſs dow grief, and pray
For pardon through thy ſo n
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In this my 1 weak defenceleſs ſtate
Protect me by thy am:
Thus ſhall I ſweetly ſleep, ing woke!
Refreſh'd, and "me Ren.”
O like thy ſun when I ariſe
May I unwearied run;
And wiſer be, and better left
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Much of my precious: time T've loſt,
This fooliſh waſte forgive:
To death brought nearer by one day
May I make haſte to live. V4

XLVI. Common Metre,

| A ſecond evening ſong.
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UT HOR of life! with grateful heart
A My evening ſong I raiſe; '
ut, O thy thouſand thouſand gifts
Exceed my higheſt praiſe ! 4
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Thy hand unſeen throughout the day
Has been my ſure ner: 23
And every hour has ſtill been fürd
un thy beneficence.

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| Thy bounty I adore:

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A ſhelter for their head;

I dwell ſecur'd dfrom cold and ſtorms,
And reſt upon 1 77

Let guardian angels round my head
Their conſtant vigils keep:
Or rather, Lord, — thy own wings
Surround me whi 77 ep ·
Now night has ſpread ber able veil
I would the day review;
My errors nicely a and ſee
What ſtill I have to do.
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Thy ſun, bright ſervant of the world,
His daily race has run;
But yet how little is it, Lord.
That I for thee haye done?
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And grant thy quick ning grace;
Then on the meren, with thy ſun
I'll run my heaven race.

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May prove to me my oy laſt:
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To me may ſet life's dubious ſun,
Before the work of = is done.
Then why ſhould I this work delay
Who muſt not boaſt another day?
This moment ſcarce I call my own,
For whilſt I ſpeak behold tis gone.
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Depends the bliſs or woe of man:
Tears and tance come too late
When death has fix d my final ſtate.
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Seize then the moments as they fly;

Learn well to live, and well to die:

Long lives the man, nor dies too ſoon,

Who lives till his great work is done.
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Soon will this haſtning day be paſt;
And this perhaps may prove my laſt :

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The ahead of his grace record,
Within his temple chearful meet,

And humbly bow. der his ſeat.

Each bufy care bort my breaſt,
Welcome my foul this day of reſt:
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Purge clean my heart from every fin,
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Kindle within the ſacred fire,

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On wings of faith and love Tl riſe
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2 for the Loris day morn,

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Thro all thy works th relates
Sun, moon, and ſtars, a wonTrous fr er
Proclaim che * thy name. f

Thy day thou uncreated light!
Nes er had a morn, ſhall ſee no night:
Suns riſe and ſet, and the pale e
But thine is ws noon, ', |
On this bleſt day my heart inſpire,
And Kindle there each deſire;
To praiſe thy name is ſweet employ,

Be this a ek. e Joy.

Grateful PI raiſe my * morning ſong,
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great thy mercies, Lord, I Fand

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My paſlibi under thy con co ontroul

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To waft me to that better ſhore,

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From thee my ous to ſtray. ”

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Tune thou my lips to ſing:

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Thus ſhall thy, name be glotified,
And my profeſſion ſnine:
The fruits of righteouſneſs ſhall ſpeak,
The doctrine all divine.

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ſve Nr. en the Lord's day.

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AIN world with all thy buſy cares
And glittering toys, depart-: -
A nobler gueſt demands my time,
Tis Jefus claims my heart.

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He roſe, the great redeemer roſe, *'. ”
And * — this ſacred day: 6
Come all ye ſaints, with pious haſte,
Your chearful homage pay.
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Sing all the wonders of his death;
His riſen glories tell: i)!
His victries and his — fing- 1
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In prayer, in praiſe, in heavenly love,
The ſacred hours employ.
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The vagal months are full of thee,
With thy rich bounty crown'd:
The circling days, and flect-wing'd hours
Thy Various praiſe reſound. ö
III.
Wake d by thy voice out ſteps the ſpring
In living green new dreſt:
On dills, in vales, thro fields and groves
Thy beauties e
Now joy the OI tribes inſpires;
Ih he birds ſweet muſick bring:
The bleating flocks the concert) join,
And rivers ſeem to ſing.
.
The ſun calls forth the ſummer months,
Nor do the hours delay: :-
The fruits with varied colours glow
Beneath his ripening ray.
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Tis now, almighty God! we ſee
Thy forked ight'nings fly:
Now *tis thy voice in thunder roars,
And ſhakes the lower ſky,
VII.
* Thy bounty, Lord, in autumn ſhines,
And ſpreads a common feaſt:
He that regards his favourite man
Will not neglect the beaſt.
.
When winter rears her hoary head,
And ſhews her furrow'd brow, _
_ In ſtorms and tempeſts, froſts and ſnows |
How awful, Lord, art thou! The

* See Thomſon's Hymn on the ſeaſons,

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IX.
The rolling year, almighty Lord!
Obeys thy powerful nod:
Each ſeaſon as it ſilent moves
Declares the predant God.

LV. n Metre.

On oaks ap
1. N
Ei icy cha that bound the ey
Are now diffolv'd and gone;
Wak'd by the ſun the blooming ſpring |
Puts his new livery on. |
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Where awful deſolation reign'd
Bleſt plenty rears her head;
Eruſtag with a ſmile to ſee
Her late deſtroyer fled.
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Teeming with life th en ſun
Protracts the falling day;
Grand light of heaven! he ſeems to wiſh
To makea longer ſtay.”
IV.
In clouds of gold behold him ſet,
Beyond the welt he flies :
Short is his nightly courſe, and ſoon
He gilds the eaſtern ſkics.. |
| V.
Behold the tuneful lark mounts up
To hail the new-born day ;
By heaven taught ſhe ſwells 4 throat
"I carheſt ſong to pal. | |
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VI. |
Riſe ſtupid man, and tune thy voice
To hail the blooming ſpring:
By nature's various charms inſpir'd
Thy great creator ſing. -
VII.
Thro' all her beauteous ſcenes admire
His wiſdom and his power:
Behold the God in every plant,
In every opening flower.
8 VIII.
Let in his word the God of grace
Has wrote his fairer name:
The wonders of redeeming love
My nobleſt ſongs ſhall claim.
3 IX. |
With warmeſt beams, thou God of grace!
Shine on this heart of mine:
Turn thou my winter into ſpring,
And be the glory thine.

LVI. Common Metre.

An Harveſt Hymn.
EK.

O praiſe the ever bounteous Lord,

My ſoul, wake all thy powers:

He calls, and at his voice come forth

The ſmiling harveſt hours,

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His cov'nant with the earth he keeps;

My tongue his goodneſs ſing:
Summer and winter know their time,
His harveſt crowns the ſpring.
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HII MN Ln.
| III.
W ell plea&d the toiling ſwains behold |
The waving yellow crop:

With joy they bear the ſheaves away,
And ſow again in —

Thus teach me, gracious God, to fow -
The ſeeds of righteouſneſs:
Smile on my foul, and with thy bea
The ripening 1 bless.
Then in the laſt great harveſt 1
Shall reap a glorious crop:
The harveſt ſhall by far exceed
What I have ſow'd in hope.

LVII. Comm Metre.
A ' ſong of praiſe to God. 4
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ONG as I live thy praiſe, my God!
L Shall my glad tongue employ:
raiſe (the beſt work of heaven) ſhall be
On earth my higheſt joy.
H.
Should I be dumb thy works would j join
To mark my laſting ſhame:
Heaven, earth and ſeas without a tongue
Declare thy glorious name.
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There's not an inſect wings thine air,
Or worm beneath the clod Pa
But ſhews thy power, and ſkill divine;
But ſpeaks the preſent God.

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70 H T M N LI.

Iv. |
Thee, will T praiſe, the preſe at God, 77
In whom I live and move: |
But who the thouſandth 1 we
Of all thy boundleſs love? Erl
V.
Not angels, whoſe ſublimer nn.
So far our notes'excel,
Can all thy varied wonders ales 7
Or all thy goodneſs tell.
VI.
Yet where the willing mind is found
Thou wilt thine ear incline:
A fault'ring ſong ſhall pleaſe inpie
By gratitude divine. |
VII.
In the bright worlds of endleſs day,
Where angels ſing thy praiſe,
I hope, when freed from mortal chains,
A nobler ſong to raiſe.

LVIII. Common Metre.

The preſence of God the Chriſtian's ſupport in
life and death.

J.
TOT to his heaven the God of grace
His preſence doth confine:
Fe viſits earth to give his ſaints
A taſte of joys .
II.

mY * = #

With n the God of Eden will dvell
Nor quit his lov'd abode.
How

HY M N IR
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In his own houſe of —— Fifth
Sweet glide the hours whilſt thi
Their God their 8 Tg the jor
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What pleaſures 1n the cloſet dwell,
To _ profane unknown!
When moſt retir d the joyful ſaint
Has been the leaſt — N
Let the dark clouds of ſorrow riſe,
And thunders loud begin,
God's preſence ſhall diſpel his fears,
And make a calm within.
VI.
Let God be near, and joys divine
Shall from a priſon ſpring: _ .
His ſaints ſhall ſmile amidſt their chains,
And in a dungeon ſing.
var” - ,
Lord, may thy preſence me attend
W hilft I have life and breath;
Then will I ſmile in every ſtorm,
And triumph een in death.

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LIX. Common Metre.
Praiſe to God for the goſpel,

I.
RITONS 1 thankful hearts adore
The gracious God of heaven:
Sing the great acts his hands have done,

he bleſſings he has yen. M
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2 HIT MN IX.
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With pity

he beheld theſe iſiles
Oerſpread with darkeſt night:
He ſpake, and truth at once aroſe

With beams —— bright...

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The glorious goſpel of his ſon.

Lies open to our eyes:
Here our immortal hopes are found,

And our beſt _— 175

I

No fields of feign'd Elyſian bliſs

The ſacred nba know:
No paradiſe w 157 ſenſual joys

5 muddy *
Tis bliſs ſubſtantial, ever pure

Awaits the pious dead: |
The bliſs of angels, and the joys

Of Chriſt their glorious head.
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O for an heart by heaven inſpir'd

With gratitude and love
My tongue the goſpeP's grace ſhould fing,

My life it's power thould prove.

LX. Common Metre.
The aſpiration and er 5
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My thoughts would wing their ways

* thoſe bri ht worlds aſcend where reigns
An alle day. .
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HY MN IX.
II. 14 1 PTE
To thee, gre ſource. of light, and life. |
My ſoul defires to ſoar;.
To gaze upon thy glories, Lord, | _
And whilſt 1 4 *
Well pleagd I ſtretch age and ben
To mount as angels do;
Earth leſſens to my ſight whüllt!
Thy bleſt abode purſe.
IV.
But ah! how ſoon I drop the wing,
Unequal to the liche \
J ſink, I fall, and n now
Is almoſt out of wh "x
V. *
Tis earth dr ighs my ſpirits down,
This heavy les clod _.
Deprives me We. nobleſt j Joys,
And robs me we God.

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Pity my weakneſs, Lord and give
Strong wings of faith and love :
On angels pinions bear my ſoul
To thy bleſt ſeat above.
| VII.
In thee may all my wiſhes fix,
My heart, my mind and ul;
True as the faithful needle tends

To its beloved pole.
K

Seeking

4 MHIY MIN LXI.
LXI. Common Metre.
Seeking divine infrudtion.. Jam. 1. 5.

1.
ArkER 05 lights! thou ſource of edt
Beſt object of my love
Wiſdom's thy, gift, this heavenly ray
Send Kort thy, throne above.
8
One ray of thine ſhall quick. diſpel
The miſts that cloud my ſight ;
And truth ſhall all her charms reveal,
In beams of heayenly light.
Men cx: ;
O teach me thy great ſelf to .
And do thy holy will:
Thy love ſhall chear my th ſoul,
And my beſt hopes fulfill.
The ſacred truths thy word. contains
Before my eyes diſplay :
Thoſe beſt ſhall know thy heavenly will,
Who beſt 5 laws obey.
M.
Should I in errors mazes ſtray,
My wand'ring feet reclaim :
My foul reſtor'd ſhall grateful ing,
The honours; of thy name.

LXII. Common zi
The favour o- God is our life. Palm xxx. 5.

I.
HE gen'ral voice of men attend,
Who ſhews the _ they cry ;

| Nen ſeek, but few alas! purſue

A true felicity. Let

HAY M N LI. 25
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Let Eaſt and Weſtern Indies join
To make us rich and great
The ſinner's poor with all his wealth,
And mean with all his ſtate.
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The reſtleſs ſoul of big deſires,
On earth no bliſs can find:
He that has form'd can only fill
The vaſt immortal mind.
IV.
Thy favour Lord is pureſt life;
With thee the fountain 1s : |
The ſtreams of joy that flow from thee,
Make up a ſea of bliſs.
V.
Let others ſeek their reſt below,
To thee may I aſpire : |
On me thy faireſt i image draw,
And more I can't deſire.

LXIII. Common Metre.
The beſt . or God our ſupreme *
I.
WI tis an empty dream I ſee
To ſeek for bliſs below: ,
Falſe world, to promiſe that which thou
Ne? er ddl, or canſt beſtow.
II.
By thy aedafive charms enſnar'd,
J liſtened to thy voice: To
But now the heavenly, perfect fair.

Commands my better choice. „
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176 HY MN IXIV.
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Be thou on, O my God!
And — thee mine: 10
Then thouſand worlds for thy grear fell 1
Il could with joy 1 |

In thee, thou bt ſtand belt
Perfections ndleſs meet:
Thou all- ſufficient good muſt _

A portion moſt CE K

Thou art my ſun, 8. thou my ſhield ;
No good wilt thou deny:

The men of upright heart ſhall find |
Tn thee a full apf. 2

Whate'er I loſe, . earth calls
. I would not dare repine: + ©
Enough I have; m rich, Fm ful

* Whilſt thou, O Lord, art mine.

EXIV. Common Metre. |
On the ſane.

J.

| ET che uninking man ery
Bleſt are the rich and great;
1 and gayly ſhine

O empty dream ! to alt that bil
Which 3 is a gilded toy:

O blind and ſtupid ſouls ! who .
And find no mn Joy. |

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HY M1 IX wy
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Be thou my portion, Lord, andT' 0
Alt once am rich and great
More bleſt than if the earth TY
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»Tis empire, Lord, to rule for thee, -
And by thy grace controul eee
Thoſe foes that threaten be dene. fre
My never-dying ow”
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Such vic ries ſhall to triumphs gs. Ml |
Sweet inward peace beſtow; f
Thy peace, O God! which men on x earth.
Can never fully 1 155
Grant me the bliſs, thou ſow'reign good? 4
To ſay that thou art mine: |
The rich ſhall boaſt their pomp and poets |
And Plt not once fepine.
VII.
How mean their joys — with thoſe
That from thy preſenee flow]
Thy ſmiles give heavy its nobleft Joys, |
And make a heaven below.

ILXV. Long Metre.
Divine RY Wee _ 26. and Matt.
29, 30
OW richly Lord, doſt thou diſpenſe
The bounties of thy providence !

O'er all thy works thy mercies are,
Nor is the leaſt beneath thy care. 12

* n Y MN LXV.
II.

To man thou art tfanremety.

» Thou givſt the labouring beaſt his-food ;

And birds of every diff” rent wing

Fed by thy hand rejoice and ſing. C
HI.

Without thy will, great Lord of all!

A chirping ſparrow ſhall not fall;

Our very. hairs, or few or more,

By thee are known and number'd o'er.
IV.

Thy hands in richeſt dreſs array

The verdant herb, the lillies gay; 3

Lillies whoſe native beauties far

Outſhine the robes which monarchs wear.
V.

Can chen thy providence forget |

To clothe thy ſaints, to give them meat :

Thy hand which feeds the raven's brood,

| Will give thy ſaints the needfu] good.
VI.

If riches, Lord, thou ſhould'ſt deny,

My ſoul with better things ſupply :

I muſt be rich if I poſſeſs

Thy Kingdom with its righteouſneſs

ages |»

This glorious kingdom to enjoy,

Be it my firſt, my chief employ:

Ihe reſt, O Lord. I leave with thee

Who know'ſtwhat's good, what's beſt for me.

; God

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LXVI. Long Metre.
God the preſerver * Jeb 20.

Puts my dee? by thine own 1
* Of grace the monument I ſtand: |
To thee 4 thanks I owe, _
From whom my bleſſings conſtant flow.

II.
Why did not the uncertain womb. - 4
Which gave me life, provide my wink;
With thouſands more I might have: fled,
Born in thenumber N we Fr, A
III.
Why in the frequent dubious ſtrife L
Twixt threat' ning death and nete born mie
Did I, weak babe, the ſhock ſuſtain,
And ſtand where millions have been lain.
IV.

*Tis thou, O Lord, didſt keep my Wesch /

And make me conqu'ror over death :

To thee the triumph I reſign,
And all the glory, Lord, be. thine,
V.

Guardian of men l. thy gracious name
My child-hood and my youth proclaim :
Midſt death's thick-flying darts, thy power
Has e me ſafe unto this hour.
VI.
When fore temptations have beſet,
And helliſh foes have ſpread their net,
Protected by thy friendly care
I have eſcap'd the dang'rous ſnare.
: O may

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O may thy poodneſs me inſpire

To do whaer thou halle require OY

Then in new troubles I will flee,
And find my refuge, Lord, in thee.
LAVIL Common Metre. _
Our times in the bands of God. Pſ. xxxi. 15:
I.
Y God, my times are in thy hands,
{nd thing are all my ways';
Tis thine ©. increaſe, or to cut ſhort
The number of my days. 0
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The place, the bounds of my abode
— mark'd by thee;
Thou bit me breathe an e ground
The air of

If proſperous ſuns * a cloud
On me ſucceſſive ſhine, | Fey's
Chear'd by thy warmth my grateful heart,
Shall praiſe the grace divine,
IV.
But ſhould dark clouds o' ercaſt my ſkies,
And mighty thunders roar,

Calm'd by thy grace, m to Shall learn |
The thund'rer eee. 12

Why ſhould I dread Ml man, ſince thou
Art far my foes above ?

With eaſe hon canft reſtrain their rage,
Or melt their hearts to love.

To

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To thee through all = e life,
I would myſelf reſign:

May I but live to thee my God,
Then dying I am thine.

LXVIII. Long Metre.
Inploring God's 6 condeſcention.

RE AT God * firſt and beſt of all,
Before whoſe throne bright ſeraphs fall:
Ten thouſand angels round thee ſtand.
Prepar'd to fly at thy command.
II

On thee ten thouſand thouſand wait,
In all the pomp of heavenly ſtate:
And myriads more rejoice to join
In work and worſhip all divine,
III.
7 rom heaven thy moſt exalted throne, |
Great God! to earth look gracious down;
Mercy becomes thy matchleſs ſtate,
And goodneſs makes thee ftill more great.
TV.
Yes, O my Ged!. thy boundleſs grace
Extends to * s ſinful race;
Thou never didſt, or wilt deſpiſe
A contrite heart for ſacrifice.
V.
No temple didſt thou e er behold
Adorn'd with all the pomp of gold
That could afford thee ſuch delight
As temples form'd of hearts contrite.

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82 H Y MN LXIX.
VI.
Here wilt thou dwell, and here wilt ſhine
With beams of glory all-divine :
Darkneſs and night ſhall flee away,
And all within be perfect day.

LXIX. Common Metre.
God is love. 1 John 4: 8.

I.
H*? I the tongues which angels uſe
In the bleſt worlds above;
Then would ] tell thy glories, Lord,
And ſing thy name of love.
II.
Yes, O my God! thy name is love;
My ſoul dwells on the ſound:
In this ſweet word my hopes, my joys,
My life, my all _ bound.
IT.
Thou ſource of love ! thy pureſt beams
Kindle th' angelic flame:
Angels by thee were taught to hos,
And ſing thy glorious name.
IV.

Thy wondrous acts of love to men
With pleaſure I would trace:
But moſt admire that love of thine
Which ſhines in Jeſus? face.
V.
O may thy boundleſs love, my Go
Excite the holy fire:
To thee with my whole mind and weng
By love would I aſpire.

.

- H'Y M N LXX. 83
VI.
Pattern of love, compleatly fair!
Thy image draw on me: "941!
Teach me to love what thou approv'ſt,
And make me love like thee.
| VII.
The new commandment of thy ſon
Deep write upon my heart;
So from the charming paths of love
My feet ſhall ne' er depart,
| VIII.
Purg d clean from all thoſe baſer luſts
Which damp celeſtial love,
My happy ſoul ſhall fitted be
To dwell with thee above.

LXX. Long Metre.

Self-dedication, and doing all to the glory of God.
Pſal. cxvi. 16. 1 Cor. x. 31.

J.

TY God! I own thy right divine
To me, and all that I call mine:
Redeem'd to thee by thy dear fon
No longer muſt I be ” own. ©

I
To thee I conſecrate my ſoul;
It's powers reſign to thy controul :
To thee my body devote,
For this thy ſon hath 8 bought.

II
My health, my time, my ſubſtance too,
And all my talents are thy due;
My debt of love I neer can pay,
But love ſhall teach me to obe.
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HIT MN IXXI.
IV.

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Tz: From thee iew-niercies conſtant flow,

To thee new debts of love I owe :

O touch within each grate ful ſpri =
And my glad tongue oy x pre ling.

Thy glory I would . in view

In all I fay, in all I do-

Amidſt thy bounties Wund me Wed
My table ſhall thine 1 ſpread.

I view thy heavens, a wond'rous frame!

Where ſun-beams paint thy glorious name:

Teach me, O ) God? my courſe to run, |

And ſpread thy glories s like thy fan,

VII.

In virtue dreſt my ſoul ſhall ſhine

With beauties os ſhall but refine;

The world ſhall ſee and ſhall adinire,

While ſaints ſhall catch the glowing fire.

LXXI. Common Metre,
On the fear of God. Prov. xiv. 26.

I.
APPT beyond deſcription. nge
Who fears the Lord his God;
Who hears his threats with holy awe,
And trembles at * W
Fear, ſaered p ever dwells
| au it's fair partner love;
ending their beauties both owothins
8 heir __ is from above. RA

HT M N © LXXIL
II.
Let terrors fright th "unvilling we,
The child with joy appears;
Chearful he does bis father's will,
And loves as 9 fears.
Let but thy fear, moſt holy God!
Poſſeſs this ſoul of mine,
Then ſhall I worſhip thee aright,
And taſte thy joys dine.

May this bleſt — — rule |
Whate'er I 25 or do:
Since every word, and deed, and thought
Lie open to thy 1

When I have learnt thy name .
All terrors Tl defy:
Let tyrants rage, and devils roar -

My refuge is on high;

EXXII. Common Metre.
Love to God. Mat. xxli. 3.
I.
F all the paſſions of the mind
Love bears the higheſt .
From earthly objects —_ refin ang
A pure celeſtial. ray.
II.
But, Lord, the wonders of thy love.
Exceed angelic ſongs;

Our feeble ſtrains juſt ſerve. tc to prove |
_ The I of our tongues. -

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36 HY M N |/LXXIE,
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Yet tho nor heart. nor tongue can tell
The greatneſs of thy love,
Our hearts again with . — well,
Then riſe to thee _ +2604
It is thy firſt, thy great command
Supremely thee to love
It's force my reaſon can withſtand,

May grace each paſſion move.

V.

With chearful feet teach me to run
In the delightful rod
Of all thy precepts till Ive done
With earth as my 8
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Then, gracious God! whoſe name 1s love,
Blow up the ſacred fire;
To endleſs ages it improve,
And more I won't deſire.

LXXIII. Common Metre.
Tri in God. Pfl. cxviii. 8,
J.

Oz earthly friendſhips what are as
Comp 45d with the divine?ẽ
The beſt we "boat have their alloy, |
And others oft decline.

II.
To truſt in man, alas, how vain! -
We lean upon a reed:

Pleaſure we ſeek, but meet with pain,
And wounds that inward bleed.
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III.

Truſt in the Lord, ye faints,”1 nor fear
What feeble fleſh can do:.
He is a rock that never —

And all his ways are true.

IV.

He loves his ſaints, he knows their wage

And bottles up their tears: |

Truſt in his precious promiſes,
Br an omg t 2REDN P

Thro' life's 11 . rd and darkeſt ſcenes
His counſel ſhall you guide;

Whilſt his unerring wiſdom leads

Hoy can your * ſlide?

Almighty power is Foe ſupport,
And truth that cannot fail;

A God all goodneſs your. reſort,
Then why ſhould fears prevail?

LXXIV. Long Metre.
The ways of providence inſcrutable. Pf. xcvii.-2,
. |
ORD, 'tis beyond the powers of ſenſe
To found the depths of Provigencey
Born but of yeſterday ſhall man
Preſume the ways of heaven to ſcan?
II.
Not to thy angels round thy throne
Thy ſecret will is fully known :
Thy ways, well pleas'd, they ſtill caps]
And wiſh and ſtrive to know them _—
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bs H * NM N x,
III.
Can then our feeble reaſon ſound {drown'd?

Thoſe depths where- angels — are
Shall our preſuming pride define

The. things H angels ne

Shall man of providence complain,

Or teach his maker how to reign?

Shall he uſurp thy. rod?

And at his bar arraign his God?

v.
My God, my king I will adore
Thoſe depths I cannot now explore:
Let clouds obſtruct my feeble ſight,
I know that all thy * are right.

I

Patient Ill wait for that bleſt day
When I ſhall drop this houſe of clay;
And ſee, and {ing as angels do

Thy ways all holy, juſt and true.

LXXV. Common Metre.
Anxiety check'd and reprov d. Mat. vi. 344

I.
E anxious cares forſake my breaſt
And vex my ſoul no more;
Ye do but multiply my griefs,
And aggravate each ſore.
II.

Why ſhould my gloomy thoughts prejage
woes a numerous train?
Why long before God gives the blow
San Lendure the pain.

Why

HN MN De

III.
Why ſclf-rormentar ſhould I dread ©
The woes I ne'er may fee ?..

And fooliſh laſh myſelf with rods _ -
Heaven ne'er 2». for Ms

| Sorrows thick-ſown ſpring up apace,
Nor nced our anxious fears; .

Why ſow we then ſuch pois' nous weeds,
And water (her) with tears ?

It is enough if well we bear
Our heavenly father's rod:
Improve the ſtroke his love. inflicts,
And juſtify our ne

Sufficient for each circling day
Its ſorrows will be found:

Kind heaven the future hides leſt we
Should give ourſelyes a wound.

LXXVI. Long Metre.

Jeſus the promiſed io a3" Gen. xlix. 10.
Dan. ix. 26 Hag 11 97
I, Ws
LORY to God who reigns above,
Who dwells in light, whotename is loves
Lo ſaints and angels, if ye can,
Declare the love of God to man,
II.

O what can more his love commend
His dear, his only ſon to ſend!
That man, condemn'd to die, might live,

And God be Shego to forgive.
iv M Meſſiah's

go H T M N IXXVI.
Meſſiah's come with joy behold
The days by prophets long foretold:
Judah thy royal ſceptre's broke,

And time ſtill proves what Jacob ſpoke.

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„Daniel, thy weeks are all expir'd,

The time prophetic ſeals requir'd

Cut off for ſins, but not his own,

Thy prince Meſſiah did atone.

.

Thy famous temple, Solomon,

Is by the latter far out- ſhone:

It wanted not thy glittring ſtore,

Meſſiah's preſence grac'd it more.

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We ſee the prophecies fulfilld -

In Jeſus that moſt wondrous child:

His birth, his life, his death combine
To prove his character divine.

S407 - Hol»: 4;

Jeſus, thy goſpel firmly ſtands -

A bleſſing to theſe favour'd lands:

No infidel ſhall be our dread

Since thou art riſen from the dead.

| LXXVII. Common Metre. -

| The charafters of the Meſſiah. Iſa. ix. 6. 7.
A. ſecond bymn on thenativity. ©

AY r I. „ &

LEST news! to us a child is born;

Io us a ſon is given: Ao

Emmanuel he, the God with us,

The choiceſt gift of heaven.

With

H * MN II *
„
With cn view this wond'rous child,
Of pureſt virgin born: |
In your beſt ſongs the titles ling: :
Which his great name adorn.
ws. -
The brighteſt rays of heavenly —
From him reflected ſnine:
The father's wiſdom dwells in him,
Our counſellor divine.
N
To univerſal empire born,
| The charge 5 well ſuſtains:
Nations rejoice, the mighty Lord,
Your king Meſſiah reigns.
V.
With growing honours he ſhall fit
On David's antient throne: |
There ſhall he ever reign, and thence
Shall make his juſtice known.
VL ; Loy
Lord of the future glorious age
By heaven's unchang'd decree:
Gentiles and Jews ſhall own his ſway,
And angels bow the knee.
VII.
Bleſt news! to us a child 1 is born;
The prince of peace is given:
He brings down heavenly peace to earth,
And makes our Peace with heaven.

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| LXXVIII.

4 third bymn on the nativity Luke | it, 11.
13. 14. As the fahrn.

I.
FE ſons of Adam join
Throughout the ſpacious earth,
In chearful ſongs to hail
The great redeemer's birth:
Let all your hearts
In concert move;
And every tongue
* tun'd by -
I
The lofty heav'ns he bow'd,
To earth the Saviour came:
With joy th' angelic hoſts
His royal birth proclaim:
For yon, O men,
Is born, they ſing,
A mighty Saviour,
And a king.

III. f
»Twas men he came to fave,
And mortal fleſh he wore:
Ye men with angels ſing,
And in their ſtrains adore:
Let your glad hearts,
And tongues combine
To praiſe the love,
Ihe grace divine.
„
Glory to God on high!“
For great Emmanuel's birth
Declares

HT M N EXXVI 9g
Declares to men good will.
And brings down Pence to earth:
Thus angels ſang;

And we'll repeat

Their ſtrains ſtill new.
And ever feet. rd

V.

Abram the patriarch led

By faith's unerrin i
0

Ned the friend

Beheld this glorious day:
Diſtant his view,

But yet ſo

bright -4

He died o'erjoy'd

At this ble

We ſee the 2
The prophecies

ſt light.
VI.

types,
fu Ad: .

With Eaſtern ſages we
Adore this wond'rous child:
God's only ſon,
Who came to bleſs ©
The earth with peace
And rn

Glory to God on high!

VII.

For great EmmanueTs birth

Declares to men

good-will,

And brings down peace to earth:
Thus angels ſang, |

And we re

peat

Their fongs ſtill new
And ever ſweet.

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LXXIX. "Short Metre. d.

A fourth un on the nativity.
HE prince of peace is come,
Ye nations ſhout and ſing;
Let men and angels join their ſongs,
To hail this g rious king.
73. ka ' —
He * the ſervant's form; 2
He lays his glory by; * ©
His heavenly father's. boſom _—
And throne of _
h III
Light of the world he comes,
The blind receive their lebt: f
The mind now feels his glac ning ray,
And all within is 16 r.

Phyſician bleſt he came,
And well employs his art:

With eaſe he makes the bruiſed whole,

And heals the e heart. 3
His tears, his ſighs and pains
Eaſe to the wounded give:
The kind phyſician dies to make
The dying patients _—
1
The great redeemer comes,
And ſounds a jubilee: ©
He burſts the priſon-doors, and bids
T he captive _ 80 free.

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VI. | "4 a
Krangelif Wenne |
He makes the goſpel known :
The poor the joyful ridings hear,
And their great prophet own.
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Whilſt eracious God I dear |
Thy goſpel's joyful ſound,
May my glad heart, my tongue, = life,
Be all obedience found.

LXXX. Long Metre. 22%
A fifth bes on the nativity. Gal. iv. 4, 5.

I,

Happy time ! auſpicious morn !

O When the bleſt prince of Peace was
born:

Angels in raptures hail'd his birth,

Who brought down N . n to
earth. ol e
II.

Twas when thi appointed years were run,
The God of grace ſent forth his ſon :
In mortal dreſs this prince of light
Conceals a form divinely bright.
III.
Heaven's equal laws by us defy'd
Jeſus obey'd and patient died:
Our curſe he bears upon the tree,
And by his death makes captives free.
IV.
The faint's full bliſs who can relate?
His honours how divinely great

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H N NM N LXXXI.
Through Chriſt a ſon, a royal heir;
What angel can the "0 n
Ye men with joyful angels fog, 1 nap 5
For unto you was born this King;
In heavenly raptures hall his birt
Who brought down rs frm }hevven: to -
N. 5

IXXkI. — 16.5 3
A fixth hymn on the nativity. *

I. |
HE time by — 4 foretold | is Sanne,
The year of Jubilee;
The Fs which kings, and ſaints ſo long
So much defird . |
He' s come; the mighty ſaviour's come 5
Hear and rejoice thou earth: _
Let every tongue, the globe und,
Hail the redeemer's birth. Tore
2
Glory to God on high be given,
For peace to earth is brought!
Good will to wretched, dying men
Surpaſſing human thought.
IV.
See where the royal infant lies, 1
In no rich bed of ſtate : 21.
A ſtable and a manger bold
This mighty potentate.
V.
There 'twas the wond' ring ſhepherds mon
T heir ſaviour wy their king: "
cre

There too ler us behold him laid, 2]
And whilft we _ ng ©

The father's matchleſs Tove we praiſe,
We ſing the ſaviour's grace:

In mortal fleſh array d the ſon,
Aſſumes the ſervant s place.

VII. OY

Not tongues of men, nor angels ſongs .
Can his abaſement tell

He dies upon th' accurſed tree

To fave our ſouls from hell.

VII.
O how ſhall I ſuch love requite !

My words are all too weak : |

Lord! may each action of my life * IT'S
Thy laſting honours ſpeak. "ION!

IX.

Glory to God on high' be given !
For peace to earth is brought

Good-will to wretched dying men
Surpaſſing human thought.

LXXKXII.. Short Metre.
On the name JESUS, Mat. i. 21. Phil. i 1.
9. IO. IU ;
WI.
ESUS,---deli 2htful name !
Salvation Fr: the ſound:

Search the wide world a ſweeter word
In nature can't be found.

II.
Behold an angel gives

The holy babe the name:
N Behold

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os H I N N. LXXXII.

Behold the heayenly choir unite

To fing his ee Aid.
Jeſus, the King of grace
An empire wide ſhall . 7
From ſin, the worſt of foes to man, F
His people he hal ” pag |
O'er Jacob he ſhall reign ; -

Gentiles the knee ſhall bend
His crown ſhall flouriſh on his head,
His kingdom never end:

V.
Ve creatures all that dwell
On earth, in air and ſe,
Th exalted name of Jeſus praiſe, -
And chearful boy he knee.
I
Jeſus, thy name we praiſe,
And thy redemption ſing, 5
From all our ſins our ſouls redeem,
And thy falvation bring.
VII.
When at thy father's throne,
For 7 grace we pray
Thy 1 name we'll plead,
And ſend our fears away.
VIII.
Whilſt on thy precious blood
| For pardon we rely,
Sway 'd by thy richeſt grace we will
All —— tuſts Nr. Tc

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HT MN EXXXIUI. 99
LXXXIII. Short Metre.
Cbriſ the 12 of the world, uſbered in + by |

ohn Bir fore-runner..

1.
N had the nations ſat
O'erwhelm'd in ſhades of night;
Thick ſhades which ſcarce admiſſion gave,
To one faint W light.
Behold the morning ſtar,
| _ Now uſhers in the day!
John, was that burning ſhining hight,
Sent to prepare or :
Behold a greater light,
The ſun itſelf ariſe !
Jeſus, bright ſun of righteouſneſs,
Salutes our wondering eyes.
IV.
Light of the world ! his _
Diſpel the doleful ni
He from our eye-lids c Enn the film,
And pours in * chr.

Jeſus ! thou light of men!

Thy doctrine life imparts :
O may we feel it's quick ning power,
To warm, and glad our hearts.

Chear'd by thy beans our ſouls,
Shall run the heavenly way;
The paths which thou haſt mark'd, and trod
Shall lead to endleſs day.
Na. Chrift's

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8 LXXXIV. Long Metre.
Chris king doin! not of t this world. John xvili. 3 36

I.
Y heaven inſpir d the prophets 128 4
The future glories of their 2

Wide ſhall Meſtial's ſway extend,

« And his dominion 40 no end. 50 :

* —

The ſun metes out wh appointed years,
The humble king on earth appears:

No royal pomp his birth adorns,
His life 1s griet, his crown is thorns.

1 ſcorn, he cries, all worldly bliſs;
Not of this world my kingdom is:

Mine, is a kingdom from above,

That rules the world by laws of love,

IV.

The men who cruel laws u 1
—7 plead my name, I j gud my foes :

ſpel mild was ne er deſign d
4 ain ** body or the mind.
V.

Humble, and meek my ſubjects are;
For them a kingdom I prepare:
Advanc'd moſt high my friends ſhall be

Who moſt on cart 85 me.

Bleſt Jeſus meek Po mi ighty king!
Aſſiſt my tongue thy praiſe to ſing :

From every ſt my ſoul ſet free,
T hat I may live and * with thee,

, > The ©

LXXXV. Short Metre.

The humiliation of Chrift the means of. our ex-
altation: 2 Cor. vil. 9.
1.
Enolp the wond' rous Hale!
The ſon of God 945
The heir of all is firſt the 44
And then the man 1 tears.

Why did he lay aſide... * e
His robes of dazling Wes

And why conceal from mortal view,
A form divinely 1 ht?

O'twas his zeal for God, (4572.5
To man ſtupendous

Which brought him from his father's throne;
To take the ſervant's place. 8

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Let Jews miſtake their King,
And treat the ſon with "A (|

We'll praiſe the king the prophets ſung,
The king to ſorrows born.

O glorious poverty 2 15 98
Which makes poor mortals * Ez

O. noble croſs that raiſes ſlaves, . 7
To honour's higheſt pitch!

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Bleſt Jeſus, when I think

© How ſorely thou waſt tried,

What can be hard to do, or bear
For thee my ſuffering guide ?

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4 H T M N LXXXVI.

| ILXXXVI. Common Metre. .
| Salvation by grace Eph. ii. 5.

TY ſoul, my ful powers awake, |
And man's ſalvation fin g b
The mighty bleſſing backward trace
To it s ſtill greater *

Grace is the ſource from whence it flows
In it's ten thouſand ſtreams :
Almighty grace, from hell's dark chains,
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From firſt to laſt grace rich and free
Reigns thro” the wond'rous By: :
To grace divine all honour be
ich reſcued en man.
God of all grace! incline my heart
To keep thy holy ways;
Obedience be my work below,
And all above be n

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LXXXVII. 1 Short Metre.

. The humble majeſty of the prince of peace.

Mat. wh 18, 19, 20, 2% „
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B. HOLD * prince of peace,

The choſen of the Lord:
d's beſt beloved ſon” fulfills |
The ſure prophetic word.

II.
No royal pomp adorns | T 1
This king of righteouſneſs ; G .
Meekneſs and patience, truth and love;
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The ſpirit of the Lord.

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The noiſy breath of fame og 1
His modeſt ears decline, "1
Goodneſs. in humble ſilence hes
His character divine. lis,
V.
His arm ſhall never break
The weak and bruiſed reed;
He will ſupport it's feeble frame
In every time of need.
VI.
The tender Jeſus ſpies
The pure, tho — abe |
The ſmoaking flax he will not quench;
But fan the holy fire.
Truth

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Truth mall ſupport his ro
And make it's glorious |
The Gentile world ſhall | craft b his grace,

And chearful Homage pay.

LXXXVI I Common Metre.”

The miracles of Chriſt. Mat. xi. 5.
J.
O rod of vengeance Jeſus takes
Like that which Maſes bore;
is peaceful ſceptre ſnews he came
Io fave and to reſtore.
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Laden with woes the ſons of men
To this phyſician fly:

He lends an ear to their complaints,

And looks with pitying eye.
III.

The powerful word he ſpeaks, and lo!

The eyes long clos'd in night
Lift up their lids, with ſweet ſurpriſe, |
To hail the joyous light.
IV.
New life the wither'd cripple feels
Diffus'd through every

His couch, and crutch he now forgets,

And leaps like * hart.

A _ the deaf reſtores, the dumb
ith eaſe their tongues employ ;
Amaz d, and pleas'd at their own 0 .
51 ag * and ſnout for joy.

Behold

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A x M N DK 105
Behold at once the lepers deang'd, =
Touch'd by the Saviour's hand:
Palſy, and fever, and each plague
Depart at his command. fi
MDs HOLES.
The winds and waves, midſt all their rage,
His powerful voice obey :
Devils his awful preſence flee, _
Nor dare they longer ſtay.
VII.
Repeat, my ſoul, theſe, wond'rous acts,
And all his honours ſpread:
Tell how his voice unbarr'd the tomb,
And wak'd the ſilent dead.
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Jeſus, my Saviour, and my Lord,
How bright thy glories ſnine!
Thy works all praiſe exceed, and PHE
Thy character divine.

LXXXIX. Common 7

The transfiguration of Cbhriſt. Mat. xvil. 1.
6. Luke ix. 28. 36. Part frft.

2 .
SCEND, my. ſoul, with willing ſteps
A To. Tabor 8 utmoſt height;
This ſacred mount, by faith ſurvey'd,
Affords no common ſight.
| II.
Leaving the world, thy Saviour ſee
Climb up the ſteep aſcent;
Devotion fires his holy ſoul,
On heaven he's 15 bent,

Peter

106 H MN LXXXIX.

.
Peter he takes, with James and John,
Bleſt favourites of their Lord;
They follow their unerring guide, |
Obedient to his word.
IV.
When lo! the Son of God aſſumes
A form divinely fair:
Celeſtial ſplendor him ſurrounds
Whilſt he's engag di in prayer.
V.

Bright as che ſun his face appears; :
As ſnow, his raiment white:
The father's image ſtands confeſt
In robes of pureſt light.
LL.
Behold with what a grace he ftands
Two ſhining ſaints between:
Ehjah in his chariot comes
To grace the ſolemn ſcene.
- HF. | (OS
| Moſes, who ſhone with borrow'd rays
On Sinat's holy hill; |
In brighter glories now appears
His meſſage to fulfill.
VIII.
Inſpir d by heaven the lovely faints
The ſolemn ſilence break;
Sweet accents from their lips diſtilł
As ſaints are us'd to *
IX.
Meſſiah's death employs their tongues,
Important theme to them :
His exit they foretell, and name
The place, ] eruſalem,

HY M N XC. 107

X.

My God, dart down a ray of lake, |
And brin "g ſuch glories near:
Transform'd by truth divine, wh foul
LT glorious ſhall appear.

XQ: Common Metre. |

Tbe transfgurati on. Second part,

1.
Ursve, my ſoul, the wond'rous theme,
Thy Lord transfigur'd ſing:
Mild as the Saviour ſee | his form,
' Majeſtic as the 1

But ah! how frail the beſt of men,
How few their vigils keep?
Amidſt theſe glorious ſcenes behold -
Diſciples fall aſleep.
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Peter, thy weakneſs we muſt blame,
Thy zeal deſerves our praiſe; [dwell
Strange thought! that bleſſed ſaints ſhould
In tents that thou ſhouldſt raiſe.
„
Fond of this meaner life on earth _
We act thy weaker part: |
Our proſp'rous ſuns, and cloudleſs ſkies _
Charm the wake heart.

We ſtretch our 3 to * the prize
Seen by falſe fancy's light:

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What tho* on earth we find no reſt,
Nor joys that are ſincere; _

To heaven tranſlated we may ſing,

« *Tis good, Lord, to be here.“
XCI. Common Metre. |
The transfiguration. Third part.
- ds S513 | I.
ABO R, thy wonders ſtill we view,
The cloſing ſcene we ſing;
Chearful the honours we repeat
Of our illuſtrious king.
an
Hark! from the glory which excell'd
The father's voice is heard;

This is my ſon, my ſon below d,

And be my ſon rever'd.
15 III.

Moſes to higheſt honours rais'd

A ſervant was at beſt:
Chriſt as the only ſon preſides
In brighteſt glories dreft.
To God's firſt-born th' angelick hoſt
Their willing homage pay:
Honour to him that's on the throne,
And to the lamb they ſay. x.
Jeſus, thy glories we admire, |
We join th angelick throng:

Tune thou our hearts, and then our tongues
Shall ſing an angel's ſong.

Chriſt

HY M N XCII. 109

XCII. Common Metre.
Chriſt OY his diſciples feet, John 13,
I.
Har wonder's this? ye ſaints behold
Your Saviour riſe from meat;
In ſervile garb the maſter ſtands
To waſh the ſervants. feet.
II. |
The limpid ſtream with care he pours
Into a laver clean, |
Waſh'd by his hands the ſervants muſe
What this ſtrange thing ſhould mean,
III.
Waſh me, bleſt Jeſus, in thy blood,
And make me clean within; n
Thy blood the ſov reign virtue has d
i o cleanſe from every ſin.
IV.
Great pattern of humility!
Teach me to condeſcend,
And by each office ſhew aer
To thee, to thine 7 friend.
Let vain and ſtupid mortals boaſt
Their wealth, or noble blood;
Teach me the humble are the grea
And greateſt thoſe moſt good.
VI.

Lord, may thy ſpirit cleanſe my ſoul
From envy, wrath and pride;
And may a love inflam'd by thine

7 other paſſions guide.

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XCIIL, | Tast Metre.

The renturion's faith commended. Mat. viii. 10.
| ; .
A Saviour's works all-glorious ſhine,
Nortime, nor placehis power confine,
Tis but for him to ſpeak the word,
And nature ſhall obey her Lord,
.
That Roman was ſupremely bleſt
Who thus believ'd, and thus confeſs'd :
A ſoldier with ſuch faith endued
Jeſus himſelf with wonder view'd.
i III.
From Abr' ams ſeed, the tribes clect,
An equal faith he might A
But faith of ſuch exalted kind
Not in his Iſrael could he find,
a IV.
Boaſt not, ye Jews, great Abr'am's name,
Faith can ſupport a nobler claim;
Gentiles through faith are Abra'm's ſeed,
His better ſons, his heirs indeed.
V.
From diſtant parts they ſhall reſort,
And hear the goſpel's glad report;
F rom north,” on ſouth, from eaſt-& weſt
New gueſts hall grace the goſpel feaſt,
VI.

Ye ſaints, in the diſtreſſing hour,
Truſt in your kd pos grace and power;
Great as his power, ſo great his love,

FR * all — all thoughts above.
5 Cbriſt

HOY M NM W. 2nr
XCIV. Common Metre. 2

Chriſt came not to 1205. Bult th 2 the law.
| v. 17.
ws 0.
OR law, nor prophets to ay
Into the world I came.”
So ſpake the Saviour, and defends
His highly ls *
I
Jeſus, in thee we ſee fulfilłd |
Th' inſpir'd prophetic line::
The law by thee accompliſh'd now
With double * ſhines.
IT.
The Jewiſh altar, and its fire;
The ark, the mercy ſeat;
The inceriſe, and the glory too
In thee we ſee compleat. |
IV.
Let Aaron's ſons their order — |
Thy prieſt-hood far tranſcends:
Higher The order, and thy call,
Thy prieſt-hood never ends.
.
No blood of bullocks, or of lamibs
On Jewiſh altars ſpilt,
Could for the ſoul a ranſom pay,
And expiate our 1 |

Thy angle ſacrifice, my Lord,
Has full atonement made:
Retire, ye empty ſhadows chen, Vf

No more we want your aid.

the

112 U 5 MN Xcv.

VII.

| The Wi Jock of righteouſne | |

Our Jeſus has refin'd: |
Lord, may our hearts to keep this law
H or ever be inclind. 1

Kc. lb tnom Metre.

Chriſt's agony in the garden. Luke xxii. 4 4.

J.
ARK! from the garden comes a ſound,

I hear no common cr; -&
Jeſus lies proſtrate on the ground,
His foul 1 in agony. = |
Behold the tears run trickling down,
He ſweats at every pore; |
Down fall the drops as tho' his veins
Pour'd out their crimſon ſtore.
III.
Thoſe muſt be mighty woes indeed.
Which near ſuppreſt his breath:
My ſoul is pain'd, fore rde ME cries,
« Pm ſorrowful to death.“
IV.
Anxious Taſk whence this diſtreſs,
Gave guilt the inward ſmart?
Or did his zeal forſake him now
To act the Saviour's part?
V.
No twas the cup the father gave
Into his hands to 3 (
This bow'd his body to the duſt,
His ſoul did lower-ſink, #: WP
* a „Father

VT.

Father remove, he earneſt eres wh

If poſſible this cup: |

If not thy will; not mine be Toiie,
I chearful drink. * - i "

To chis bieſt pattern, form 1088 41
In temper truly one:

Then will I take the cup and ſay,
Father thy will be done.

- XCVE. Coton Metre.

The good ſhepherd. John 38

I.
ESUS my condeſcending Lord,
J Fulfills the ſhepherd? s name:

- : -
;
0 *

0

e guides the ſheep, ſupports the lambs

Of weak and tender frame.
II.
To paſhutes freſh.ho leadarhis: Bocky"
The living ſtreams beſide:

Where — with pureſt current bos,

And ſweeteſt pleaſures glide.
III.
Before his ſheep the ſhepherd goes.
His voice the ſheep obey: |
A ſtranger's vdice they will not hear |
But turn their feet —_

When ſtrayi from his ſacred fold,

The ſheep their errors mourns; -

| He will forgive, for well he's pleas'd |

When wandering ſheep return.
2

My

I 14 H * M. N XCVII.

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My heavenly, ber wond'rous g
In mem'ry I wil keep:

The beſt bees ies is he,
*To fave the dying ſheep,

cz VI.
His ſheep. he knows, his faithful .
He guards from dire alarm;
Not men, nor devils ſhall them pluck, |

From his embracing arms.
VII.

Eternal life, and joys compleat,
Unto the ſneep he gives:

And to ſecure the promis d bliſs,
The ſhepherd ever lives.

XCVII. Common Metre.
The poverly and contengment-of wa
510 58.

I. |
| D How 12d view. my ſaviour's life,

How far beneath a throne ?:
he of kings has not a —
Whic he could name his o.] n.

II.
. Whilſt little birds enjoy d their neſts, |
And foxes Found cel bed Ne
The ſon of man no place could find
Where he might reſt his head.
III.
Poor were his friends, yet their ſrnall ſtock,
His daily wants ſupply: '
The glorious. heir of all behold,
— on chart.

20

HT MN XCVII. 113
IV.
Yet not one murmur or complaint |
His ſacred lips dr

He well had learnt the ardyous call,
The art to be *

From thee, bleſt FP if would I earn, |
This art in full extent;
ce In whatſoever ſtate I am,
46 Therewith to *
Content, O art divine! that ſhews
To wealth the ſhorteſt road
Brings down heaven's bliſs into the foul,
And wafts the ſoul to Gd.

XCVIII. Common Metre. |
The love of Chriſt paſſth knowledge, Epheſ.
19.
1 |
Donx ye ſaints, the king of love,
The king of ſufferings too:
What can exceed his griefs unleſs
His greater love to you?
I.

N *
. " *
*

J 5
His love O who its heights can reach!
It's depths what line explore?
This is that wond*rous ſea which knows | |
No bottom, nor a al b
III.
To know this entertaining theme,
The ſons of light aſpife;
Yet angels can but know o part,
And angels * enquire.

To

1 H M N XOX,
IV.
To ſave rebellious dying men,
Repair their woeful loſs; 7 1
The ſon of God to earth defoends, *
ee b 2
He freely ſheds his Precious: blood,”
Too waſh away our ſtains
The balm he gives to heal .
Flows from his 1 2 veins.
To e the — love,
Ye angels tune your lyres:
A love Which knowledge far ede f
Your higheſt ſtrains requires.
| - vu
| Ye faints the choir of angels j Join,
In ſongs of chearful praiſe :
And let your lives more loudly ill
His higheſt honours raiſe.

XCIX. Common Metre.
The man of ſorrows. I, lil. 3:

* E ſaints the man of 8883 view,

Behold the ſuffering king;

Let love and pity melt _ hearts,
Whilſt ye the ſufferer fling, |

"IM had the ſweet, and. heavenly babe,
Enter'd this vale of tears, |

But jealous Herod marks him out,
A victim to his eas.

What

EHT MN XCIX.
III.
What though the harmleſs babe e
A cruel tyrant's hands;
Grief ſoon aſſails, and binds him fat
In new and ey ws bands.
2 Mong .:2
Purer than light e fad.
But theſe can't guard his name,
With pois'nous breath, his ſpiteful foes
The holy one defame. . £2
v. *
By foes blaſphem' d, left by his Sede, — 75
Amidſt his greateſt woes |
Denied by one, by one betray'd,
To his moſt cruel foes.
VI.
But who can tell the ad
He in the garden bore; |
When the huge drops of ſweat flow'd own
Like {ſtreams of . gore?
VI
Lo ! from his ſon in awful clouds
The father hides his face :

With this compar'd, * — was I
And willing 1 Its dif

VI I” id If

Jeſus, how great muſt be 651 love

Io ſuffer thus for me;

To die for Adam's guilty ſons
Upon tit c . . ..

mma IE =

O may that precious blood of thine,
By thee ſo freely ſpilt,

Atone for all my heinous crimes, "
And cleanſe me from my guilt. Con-

bis

2

. Shed =_ ;
Grit the mocked by bis enemies and MEN
YE 2 Vis friends.
3
EH OLD the ſon of God
B How patiently he ſtands!
urrounded - the lavage Jews, &
And cruel r
They mock his royal claim;
And ſport in impious play: _
In a feign'd robe of purple dye
They rudely him 18
I
Upon his head they place
Of thorns a pricking crown:

The thorns his ſacred temples pierce,
Whilſt blood 8 down.

| The ſceptre too they mock,

What can their ſcorn exceed?

For rod imperial, in his hand
They put a feeble *

The wretches bow the knee,
And ſcornful homage mage pay EIS
King of the Jews they call him now,

_ hail thou a king ey nd (ſe

H Yo MN CL 119
VI. ö
Let Jews deride his claim,
We will proclaim this Tony
The vi&tries, and the Ty Pho
Of his dear croſs we ing.
VII.
Jeſus hs king now ſhines
In robes of pureſt light:
A radiant crown his head adorns, -
Than ſtars or ſun more bright. 1 ©
VIII.
Bleſt Jeſus, glorious king,
Thy ſceptre is divine!
Hail! "mighty king, to thee we Wen
To thee our *
Thy crown of thorns, my Lord,
Has a rich bleſſing =—
Since thoy haſt worn the thorn we ſee
With joy the curſe: remow'd.

EL Short Metre.
Hoſanna to the Son of David. Mat. xxi. 9.

I
ION, behold your king © |
With love and meekneſs crown'd :
See where he rides in humble-pomp,
Whilſt loud Hoſannas ſound.
I
Let us proclaim this king,
And our Hoſannas join:
Bleſt be great David's ſon and Lord,
Whole kingdom is divine,

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In God his father's name b ef
He comes 11 ſave 1 5 |
Hail! prince of peace, image nal:
Of thine own Father's A
| IV:
| Wide may thy kingdom ſpread,
And proſper evermore: -
May every nation bleſs thy name
To ocean's A cb ©
Children and babes preſent _ Fn.
Io Chriſt your feebler ſtrains:
The king whom children ſang on earth _
In heaven triumphant reigns. :
VI.

To earth he'll come 0 hy
With brighteſt 1 crown'd; |
An gels ſhall him eſcort, and ſaints
Their glad * ſound.
VII.
In robes of pureſt white
The conquering faint ſhall ſhine:
Each ſhall his palm of victory bear,
The gift of grace divine.
VIII.
In ftrains — unknown ,
Their joyful tongues ſhall ſin
Hoſan 5 the ſon of God, l
Their Saviour and their king.

he

HT MN Cl. 12
CII. Short Metre.
The voluntary ſufferer") Pl. xl 6, 7. 8. Heb,
ES TG 7. Gs
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B the love of Chriſt ©

To wretched dying men; wee
ſave our ſouls he gives his life, 1
And takes it up ag bad | .

What more Wil he beſtow '
Our loſſes to retrieve? - ? „
More than himſelf he could not give, £2 2h
Nor more could we receive.
III.
Not all the powers on earth |
Could ſtop his vital breath;
A victim to his will he fell,
And ſuffer'd unto death.
IV.
« I come, my God, he ier,
« ] come to do thy w e
« Whate'er the Bak ale page. hath bg r
« Thy ſon bel as maeL-.....
In ſacrifice no more,
My God, is thy delig kt;
&« Nor coſtlieſt gifts the oſt can ſend _
Are pleaſing in 172 light. |

A body ſpotleſs pure

8 Thou haſt prepar'd for me;
So grand, ſo rich a ſacrifice

* The world did never ſee.

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122 1 Y M * aol
VII.
6, Fo do thy will, O God,
« To mY the Saviour's partz.
This law of love, my chief delight,
« Is wrote within oy heart.

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jeſus, thy name welovez OT
To thee ourſelves reſign: SA
But O how mean this ſacrifice 0
Compar's, O Lord, with thine!l!
' CHI. Short Metre. |

He was number d with the tranſereſſors. Wa.
In. 12. Mark xv. 8.

L
[)EHOLD God's deareſt ſon
B Nail'd to th accurſed tree;
etwixt two thieves he hangs As tho?
Coen: ah ey .
My condeſcending Lord,
What love can equal cine!
To bear ſuch ſhame for us declares
Compaſſion —

Should we endure reproach,
Dear Jeſus, for thy name;
With pitichce we would bear the ſcourge,
And glory in the _—
Thine honours we'll mamtain;

Our ſongs alike mall own
The Saviour hangin ont on his croſs,
And reigning on Us throne.
n Before

HOY * * * 123

Before ee, . * tint er
orious name pr ig) r
Be 2 thy ſeryant's ſtrife who mol. 1 »1
. The maſter ſhall 8 |
hy - good to follow the, 1 5 *
Een through a thorny road:
Rough be our path it muſt be 65
That leads to thine abode.

CIV, Long Metre.
* is finiſhed. John xix. 50.
I. | AL
IS fniſh'd—O important mY A
Of Jeſus my expiring Lord
The conflicts oer, the vict ry wan,
3 triumphs, Jeſu * begun.

Finiſh'd we ſee the wondrous {ich 1
Our race from ruin to redeem: | | Ta
A ſcheme angelic thou 1 above,

By wiſdom rm, 11 boundleſs love.

No blood of beaſts Aden ws
Could waſh away the ſtain of
Nor Hyſſop Apt | in bullock's

Nor pureſt waters of 1 gs Pt
Jeſus has bled, the . 18 ED 3
The ſubſtance cone,

His blood alone cou kcal from ;.F
His — make us C lean within

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"Tis finiſh'd—what the prophets tell
That Chriſt ſhould conquer when he au.
He fell and with his dying breath
Proclaims his victory over death.

VI.
Rejoice, ye rig hteous in the Lord, 2
And truſt od mighty Saviour's ed?
This prince — 3 high to fave
Shall make ME: oer the grave.
V
"Tis finiſh*'d—O reviving word
Of Jeſus, -our expiring Lord! Vi
The conflict's o'er, the victory won,
Thy triumphs, Jeſus, are begun.
| CV. Long Metre.
Miracles attending the death of Chriſt. Mar.
Xxvii. 51, 52, 33 |

I,
\IS finiſh'd— the redeemer c cries, ;
Then bows his ſacred head and dies :
Nature her ſuffering Lord bemoans

Wich ſympathetic gs and Groans.

Soon as the world's = light i Is gone

Her deepeſt mourning ſhe puts on;

Affrighted at this awful ſight _

She veils the ſkies with ſudden night,
III.

Such an eclipſe neer ſeizʒ d the ſun

Since he his heavenly race begun:

From mortal eyes to diſappear

Without ur EIS —_——

Behold!

LY

125

HY. M N CVI.
„

Behold ! by bands unſeen to men L
The ſacted veil is rent m twain; 1
Earth trembles, and the ſtubborn rock
To ſhivers flies _ the ſhock. -
The marble tombs, ſtruck with furprze-
Burſt, and their dead to life ariſe: |
What but a voice, and power divine !
Could make the a charge reſign? .
Sweet pledge, ye ſaints, of that bleſt day
When Chriſt ſhall wake your ſleeping = a ;
Shall make his grace and power full un
And once, and ever death 4 dethrone.. -

CVI. Long. Metre.
Chriſt crucified the wiſdom of God. 1 Cor. i.
S 3s; Wo "HA : |
I.

ET Jews and Greeks the croſs blaſ pheme,
Chriſt crucified ſhall be our r theme:

Chriſt crucified we will adore, .
Of God the wiſdom and the power.

p | i; EI
Still let the Jew reproach the croſs, 1.

Tis here we beſt repair our loſs;
How can the croſs give us offence,
Who draw our joys, our life from hence 54
III.

Let heathen wits our faith deride
Who hope for life from one that died:
We know the grace, the wiſdom bleſs
Of what — cord as fooliſhneſs. -

4 1 0

3265 HY M N CVI.
Angels admire the-wond'rous plan
That wiſdom form d to reſcue man;
Ye ſons of men with angels join
To praiſe the wiſdom .

Here, gracious a with joy we ſee
Thy glorious attributes agree:
Mercy and truth together meet,

And juſtice miles . her ſeat.

The law in it's full . ſhines,
For grace ſupports th immortal lines:
His precious life thy Jeſus gave
From ſin and an alike to —

. cvn. Comman Metre.

Chrift praying for bis crucifiers. Luke xxiii. 34.

I.
AXTENDED on the ſhameful tree
The great redeemer view;
E cruel Romans ſcourg'd, and mock'd
By the more cruel Jew.

His dying groans they make their ſport,

—— And ſe at his diſtreſs:
Fierce as the hungry birds of prey,
As tygers pitileſs. U.

But ſee what pity for his foes
In geſu's breaſt is found: _
Their crimes, ſo pierce his heart by 4 ſeems
To e Wo. e
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H Y M N evil ##3
- IV. A k
To heaven he lifts his heart and prays, "AC
(What can his love ſubdue?) r
« Father forgive, he earneſt cries
„They know not what they do.
V. ' —
eſus this wond'rous love 1 ling, 5 5 =
And whilſt I ſing admire: a
Breathe on my ſoul, and kindle there |
The lame celeſtial fire. |
| TT.
No longer then ſhall I abhor, am
The man that is my foe; vor
But ſhall forgive, and think how mae,
I to thy bounty owe.

CVHI. Common Metre.

der to be affected with a view of "a cruti-
fed Saviour.

I.
Maze love! God has not ſpar'd +
His dear and only fon : | *
But him deliver'd up to death - > 30/1
For crimes which 1 done.
Behold the ſpotleſs ſon of Gd
Amidſt the helliſn bands
With cruel thongs his back they tear,
Then pierce his x BN 11 36
Nail'd'to th accurſed tree he hangs”
A ſpectacle of woe: \
From head, from hands and pierced
The crimſon currents Bow.”

Fe
| Shock'd

128 HY NM N IX.
. IV. 3
Shock d at the ſight the frighted ſun
| Withdraws each radiant beam:
The earth conyullive pangs endures

Whilſt J eus 11 blaſpheme.

The Saviour bows his head and dies, wh

And mighty rocks are rent: ©

Lord, .may theſe ſcenes affect * foul,
And make my heart relent.

VI.

O may I ne'er indulge thoſe ſins

To thee more cruel fat

Than thorns or rods, than whips or a

Or pointed Roman ſpear.

CIX. Long Metre.
The love of God — in our redemption

red.

| I.
E'bleeds---the Saviour bleeds and Ges

Amidſt a thouſand 86: 447 you
For crimes he ſuffers: who had none,

I' atone for faults which men had done.

II.
O the amazing love of God, F
On his own ſon: to lay the rod!
Io bruiſe him on th' accurſed tree, |
That from the.curſe 5 might us free.

I

Great too, my Saviour, was thy love,
To leave the glorious realms above:
To be the babe, the child, the man
FER execute what grace began.

ho

1 'Y M N cx. 129
e ee e
Such love by far exceeds he name
Of human in it's pureſt flame: L
A love which angels ſtill — Ein
Should heart an _ and life inſpire.
Ye ſons of men admire the
By heaven beſtowd on Adam's race:
But language fails hat words deny,
Let love, immortal 3 ſu pply.

I

Purſue ye ſaints the heavenly road;
Marking each ftep your Saviour trod.
His love, his grace, will carry Gough,”
And make you more than conqu rors too.

CX. Common Metre.

* The Off of ns:

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Jr: 8507 precious is thy name,
How bright thy glories ſhine !
Each ſacred charm unites in thee,

Thy beauties are ; wo
Only begotten; well:belov'd-

Of thy own father God;
In thee al grace and truth reſide, -
And love — its abode.

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UI.

Greateſt of vrophets, L admire _
Each doctrine and command:
And whilſt my foul Word the grace,

Io do wy will 1 _

Au ta.

Thou art my pegel, RA wond'rous love >
Thy. ſelf the ſacrifice : .- _

Thy blood aton'd, and ſtill it's voice
Is heard above the —

It is th ht, my glorious king,
To y right, — of mine;
Eagh baſe uſurper I renounce
To be er thine
pl Fe.
Th t examp e nobly ſhines,
A all thy laws:
My duty bids me copy thee,
Thy love moſt ſtrongly draws.

CXI. Common Metre.

The exampl of Chrift. John xii. 26,

1.
JT; is my dns voice I hear,
Ariſe and follow me:
Jeſus, my great but humble Lord,
. My pattern thou ſhalt be.
II.
What p pure devotion warm'd thy Breaſt,
What zeal. inflam'd thy heart?
Ea me but catch the ſacred fire,
My ſoul ſhall do her part.
It

*

LESS, xy.

It was thy meat, thy rink to do
Thy heavenly father's will :

Be this my beſt repaſt on earth
My duty to fan

When fore afflitions preſs me down,
Let patience hold me up:

The cup I drink, my Lord was thine ; ;

I rink a father's © Fw

To
40 þ
—

Father, thy will not * be done,

Was thy ſubmiſſive c |

O touch my heart, and AH my tongue
Shall make the wor reply.

| -

Goodneſs which ſhone through all thy life
Was brighteſt at thy death: © |

Forgive my murd'rers, was the prayer, :
Of thy Expiring 22 | |

Jeſus enlarge my narrow ſoul, _
With goodnels fuch as thine :

Thy fair example cloſe purſued,
Shall make me all divine, 8

CXII. Common Metre.
Chriſt's e on Kd tenderneſs. E Heb. i.
17,1 18. I. Ut KJ) Tal
*
YA humble followers of the lamb,
What mould your fears create?
Behold the I's lovely n name, 2

* tender advocate. |
9 NO

„ n * ee,
II.
No ſtranger he to hs, 13 2
Or to temptations ſore: = LS
Far greater ſorrows he has felt PITS
Than mortals ever bore. IT FRE
III.
He use what griefs his ſervants feel,”
And feels himſelf their ſmart:
Their fighs and groans, and flowing teary
Pierce thro? his tender heart.
IV.
Such an High-Prieſt i in human form, 5
= tender, good and juſt, |
Will neer deſert his faithful friends,
Nor diſappoint their truſt.
V. |
The ſympathy that dwells within. r
His tongue ſhall ſweetly prove
As ſtanding by his father's throne, |
He pleads his TW love.
I.
Be ſtill my paſſions, then be Kill; *
My cauſe let Jeſus plead;
God will beſtow the emed grace
To help in time of need.

CXIII. Long Metre.

The Chriftian Paſſover, or the Oll Leaven
purged out. i. Cor. 55 7, 8

Li I.
EE Iſrael's * their coaſts around,
Repair to Salem's hallow'd ground;
The paſſover begins the year,
And young and old with joy appear.
Chriſtians

1
Chriſtians have now their feaſt, and more
Than ever Jews enjoy'd before
Our paſchal lamb has long been ſlain,
The ſubſtance come 1 type is van.
. 'Tis a deliv*'rance wondrous Wen: "/
We at this table celebrate:
Reſcued from ſin, from death and hell,
What tongue can ſuch ſalvation telle?

IV. 1
With pious care let us remove
What ever Chriſt cannot approve:
Let no baſe leaven, no ſecret guile

Our conſcience, or our feaſt defile.

v.

Sacred the temple of our God,

Pure be our hearts for his abode :

If he vouchſafes to dwell within

We muſt purge out the reigning ſin.
VI.

With body pure, and mind moſt chaſte

«a-

Our hallow'd food we're bid to taſte : -
Anger and malice muſt be gone, =
That love divine may rule alone.

* This and the nine following hymns are more pertiep⸗
larly adapted to the Lord's Supper. There are ſeyeral
others which may be as ſuitable, where this inſtitution is
not * referred to.

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HAY M N cx.

- CXIV. Short Metre.
Behold the lam Y Cod. John i l. *

FHOLD the mT of God!
The holy baptiſt cries ;
Whilſt joy inſpir'd his pious breaſt,
And ſparkled in 7% pe
Let u us behold the lamb,
In him no ſpot we ſee:
How patient, gentle, meek and mild!
From guile, from error fre.
III.
See Jeſus like a lamb
Led to the ſacrifice;
And ſilent as the wy that dumb
Before her e * 2

134

This lamb of God, — 8
In mem' ry ſtill retain:
Come chearful to the goſpel feaſt,
Your paſſover is TY
The lamb moſt worthy is,
And be his name ador'd ;
He dies, and by his death behold
A guilty world * d!

Behold this ſpotleſs Und!
And mark the path he trod;
I his bleſſed road will ſurely lead
To 3 and God.

Love

HYMN CxV. 135
Cxv. Common Metre.
Love to an unſeen Saviour. 1 Pet. i. 8.

GY ROT
LEST, O my Saviour, were thoſe eyes
Which ſaw on earth thy face!
Who in thy humble form beheld _
Thy father's truth and grace.
| _ -_
But now thy lovely face is hid
From theſe our mortal eyes;
Yet ſtill by faith we may thee view,
For faith can pierce the ſkies.
S =
Jeſus, our Lord, increaſe that faith
Which lifts the ſoul above: _
Then ſhall thy glories, tho? unſeen,
Transform our ſouls to love.
IV.
Yes, we will love thee tho' unſeen,
For thou art {till the ſame; _
Thy ſaints thou never wilt forget,
Nor ſcorn the humbleſt name.
. | V. b
Theſe are thy ſervants, theſe thy friends,
For them thy table's ſpread: *
What can they want whilſt thou wilt give
The true and living bread ? 8
VI.
Jeſus, thy table we ſurround,
Our ſacred food we eat:
And in our chearful ſongs of praiſe
Thy wond'rous grace repeat. 1
When

\

136 H 1 M N cxv.

35 1
When faith ſhall well have cleans'd our fouls
We will rejoice in thee: |
But, O. the joy unſ peakable,
Thy bliſsful foe to ſee!

| This bymn may be ſan previous to the Lord's-Sup-
per by making this ſmall alteration in ſtanza VI.
Jeſus, thy table we'll approach
Our ſacred food to eat: |
And in our chearful ſongs of praiſe
Thy grace we will repeat.

CXVI. Common Metre.

On the Lord's Supper.
I. E
HIS is the feaſt that Jeſus makes, -
And bids his friends draw near;
Not all the dainties earth can give
So much my heart can chear.
x =
Ye ſaints, with gratitude adore
Your Saviour's tender love;
Who by theſe ſigns would raiſe your ſouls
To him and things above.
n
Deſcend, bleſt Lord, and dwell by faith |
Within F. heart of mine:
Thy grace ſhall ſtrengthen all my powers,
And bleſs each facred ſign. 3
IV.
J eſus, thy fleſh is meat indeed;
And drink indeed thy blood:
Thou giw'ſt us living bread for meat,
K or drink the living flood. 3
Strength' ned

HT MN CXVII. 137
| V. Wy
Strengthned with inward might we'll ao,
And bear thy holy will:
Our foes ſhall fall, and we'll go on
To fight and ag till.

Drawn by the powerful cords of oye
Thy glories we'll proclaim : :
And do our beſt to make the world

| Revere, and love thy name.

cxvll. Common Metre.
On the Lord's Supper.

1.
ESUS, why ſhould we eat and drink
To keep thy love in mind? g +
Can thy diſciples thee forget, .
Thy friends n unkind? *

Ah! Lord, thou know'ſt how frail we are,
How earthly cares beſet; |
By theſe o'erwhelm'd how ſoon do we

N and thee forget?
.
To thee ten thouſand thanks we owe,
Our ſouls with all their powers;
Bind to thyſelf with cords of love
Theſe roving hearts of ours.
IV. 4
May faith preſent thy matchleſs charms
To our admiring eyes: |

Here may we ſee What angels view

With 1 and e

Vain

133 H Y M N CXVIII.
Vaih world depart; and try no more
To fix my heart on thee: $7
I muſt now live to him alone
Who liv'd and died for me.

' EXVIN. Common Metre.
On the Lord's Supper.
SN 101 1: EDT. ©
HIS do in mem'ry of your Lord,
| The holy Jeſus ſaid; _-
When he his heavenly father bleſt,
And took and _ the bread.
Take eat, faith he, and here behold
My body broke for you : 2
Take ye the cup, and drink the wine,
For this my blood doth ſhew.
„„
The new, the better cov'nant ſee,
Which time ſhall ne'er repeal;
This cov'nant founded in my blood
Shall your full pardon ſeal.
4
Jeſus, thy fleſh is heavenly food,
Thy blood is drink indeed:
From thee we grace and ftrength derive
To help in time of need.

Whilſt at thy table, Lord, we ſit,

Enlarge our narrow hearts;
Then faith and hope, and holy joy
Lord,

H T M N CXIX. 139
5 VI. 0 &
3 we are thine, bought with thy blood,
Our ſervice is thy due;
With zeal inſpire us to perform
The vows we here renew.

CXIX. Common Metre,

On the Lords Supper.

I.
J the king his table ſpreads,
And bids his friends draw near;
Obey my ſoul; with facred j Joy
Before the king appear.

II.

What is it, Lord, thou doſt require?
A thing extremely hard ? |
That few, ſo very few, are found
Who this command regard.
III.
Doſt thou oblige us by this act
To be made poor like thee ?
To bear the pain and the reproach
Of thine accurſed tree?
IV.
Muſt we renounce all ſocial bliſs
Kind providence ſupplies ?
To cayes and deſerts muſt we run,
And ſpend our Mk in ſighs?

Thy laws, my deareſt Lord, contain
Do ſuch ſevere decree:
This precept bids us ſhew thy death,
And ſtill remember thee,
Is 82 2 O may

120 HT MN cxx.
1
O may we bear thy laws in min.
Like thee be meek and good!
And with our lips and lives 1225
The virtues of thy blood.
.
Shall Heathens to appeaſe falſe gods
Their bodies wound and tear:
And can I then, my Lord, refuſe.
Thine eaſy yoke to wear?

N. Short Metre.

Looking on him whom ve have Pierced; or the |
water and the blood. John xix. 34 3 7

I,
_=__ this feaſt provides;
And bids his faints attend:
Ye ſaints, his matchleſs favours ſing,
Which all your thoughts tranſcend.
II. |
Was ever love like his?
Ye Angels it admire;
To leave the bliſs of his own heaven,
And on a croſs EX Ire.
II.
Breathleſs, and pale he hangs,
A ſpectacle of woe: |
From his pierc'd-fide in ſtreams behold.
The blood and water flow.
1
So rich a flood as this
Till now neꝰ er ſtain'd the ground:
Our pardon, and our cleanſing too
In this bleſt ſtream are found.
Dear

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Thy wounded hands and Bear
Deep-pierc'd would we lament dene
Which gave thee w thy ſmart. |
Won by thy love, the world.
And fleſh ſhall be deny'd:

Thus we proclaim our love, and thus
With thee are 2 . 577

92

CXXI. Commion Metre.
| On the Lord's ſupper. .
J.
EH Ol D the father's matchleſs grace,
B From heaven he ſent his ſon;
bleed, and die upon the croſs,
For crimes which men had done.
II.
Ye fins this ſacred board around
Adore the Saviour's name;
For you the painful croſs he bore,
For you deſpis'd the ſhame.
s
My tongue the boundleſs grace would "EP
But words how weak are they?
Not the bleſt tongues which 4 uſe
Can all the grace I.

I bid the nobler powers of thought
To try what they can do; 21

But ſoon, alaſs! they ſink and tire,
Whilſt I the chains purſue, ,

Not

as HYMN exxar

F.
Not the bright ſeraphs who excel] _
In wiſdom, can explore |
The heights and depths of this great 1
But wond' ring e A "<3 3+; nd

I too with — "INE Join,
A feebler ſong I raiſe: |,

And when my tongue can do more

| My life ſhall better praiſe. Jes

This hymn may be ſuited to any other occaſion by al:

_ tering, the IId ſtanza thus;

Come, ye that love the Lord, unite
To praiſe the Saviour's name;

F or you the painful, &c.

cxxIl. Short Metre.
On the Jane |

I.
HIS Gan feaſt we 3 1997
In mem'ry, Lord, of —
Here 'tis thy griefs we view, and here
Thy greater love * ſee. |
I.
Not death's moſt direful forms
Could oer thy love prevail:
Love ſtretch'd. thy body on 55 e,
And drove each *
We ſee thy love flow down
In ſtreams divinely pure:
To waſh our ſouls from all their ſtains,
And make our pardon fure. *
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HY MN NI. TY

IV. F
What ſhall-Trender Lord, ar 200
For love fo great as — 111
To thee ten thouſand tinte 1 OY
To thee myſelf ry 2

Rule heneeftth, mighty Tora, .
The empire of my ſoul - Fee

Each word, each thougfit; each ſecfer aim,
Thou king of * control.

My life ſhall praiſe thee 1
Whilſt Frhy laws obey:

But O eterhity's too ſhort, ©
My debt of love to —

CXXIII. Common Metre: _
The ſuperiority of Chriſt's ne Heb. x.

115 12.
1.
ESUS the great high-prieft behold;
With brighteſt honours crown'd yz *© |
Glad angels ſing his praiſe, and ſtrike
Their harps of * found. _
His glorious prieſt-hood let us fi
Not drawn from Aaron's line;
More noble is his calling far,
His order more RW =
| es Ui.
In ſwift ſucceſſion Aaton's ſons +
The changing prieſt-hood quit :
The fathers die, and to their heirs
The ſacred charge tranſmit.

- ”

Not

+. n YOM be c

Not wich his breath. I our 2
| His greater charge —
Foes ſhall his pri eſt· hood 1
80 ſpake the oath e 901 1 5

No offerin os for bin A be brings... 1
To — from guilt A * 12. 2
W ee
: he es Bo in 0 i

Behold! in the yo he _

His own mol recious blood: pn
No blood of beaſts; their. = FA veins
. Neer pour'd ſo Tha flood. |
In vain the bleeding victims fell
— —ů 3 rg
No blood of bulls, of goats, or lambs /:
- Cog make. the copkien a
Ie" 1995 II 3
eſu ſacriſictde i
us, a e a 4
| The ypes 1 0
Before the 3 kun.

pt

'CXXIV. Common Metre ©

The yoteif cant o. eah one. Mat. xi. 29, 30.
8 k

27 18 Jeſus the great er tn.
My foul obey his word: ,

Take up my eaſy yoke, he cries,
And learn of me your Lord.

2 The

+ # 4

H T M N CXXV. 145
| H.
The galling yoke by Moſes fram'd..
My goſpel ſnall remove: -- |
1 give the wounded conſcience eaſe, 22
And rule by laws of love. |
III.
Jeſus the precepts in thy word
With charming luſtre ſhine: *
But written in thy fairer life,
Their beauty is divine.
IV.
When pride puffs up my empty mind,
Or angry paſſions riſe;
O may 1-then with conſcious ſhame
To thee. direct my eyes.
V.
5 Humble and meek thy temper Was,
- And all thy paſſions pure:
In thy bleſt life I ſee my rule,
And find my p ul cure.
When I have learnt thy temper well,
In thy fair image dreſt ;
Peace ſhall poſſeſs this ſoul of mine,
Sweet pledge of endleſs reſt.

xxx. Short RTE eat
Chriſt's death, burial and reſurrection.
| W |
E ſing our faviour's love,
For us he yields to death : - 271
'Tis finiſn'd, ſaith the Lord of life,
* chen reſigns his n K

. ER See

—

146 H T M N Cxxv.

See where his faithful friends
Their odours ſweet prepare;

T' enbalm his corps, nor pains nor coſt
The rich ene 5

II

Their fears are now for
And whilſt-the reſt are fled,

Nobly they ſtand, and own their Lord
Now nun with the dead.

IV.
In Joſeph's virgin tomb
Behold the body plac'd :
No tomb ſince death his reign began,
With ſuch a gent was grac'd.
V.
Boaſt not thy vice ry death,
Thy triumphs grave decline;
Soon ſhall thy ſtrong, and maſſy bars,
The prince of life reſign.

VI.
A body fo rd,
From alf deflement free;
A form ſo holy eould but die,
But not corruption ſee.
VII.
Ye Jews, and hoſts of hell,
Soon were your triumphs o'er '%
The faviour fell to riſe again,
And lives for ever more.
AL
He lives; ye ſaints rejoice |
Through him you vict'ry have:
For you he conquer'd death, for you
__ triumph'd o o'er the grave.

HT MN CEXXVI 147

exxXvI. Long Metre. |
The reſurrection of Chriſt. Matt. xxvin. 2.--9.
1 voices all ye ſaints, and ſing
The conquering faviour and the king:
He roſe- he lives, the joyous ſound,
Let earth with all her ſhores rebound.
Tell me O earth, what made thee ſhake ?
Ye rocks whatpower could make you quake?
Th Almighty father gave the word,
And ye reſtor'd your captive Lord.
HI.

Jeſus my ſon, he ſaith, I claim;
Only-begotten him I name :
This day be known his higher birth,
By all in heav'n, by bo on earth.
He ſpoke---and from the lofty ſkies,
With ſpeedy wing an Angel flies :
The place he marks where Jeſus lay,
And rolls the mighty ſtone away.

Be.

How great the keeper's fear and dread -
They quake, they fall, they lie as dead !
Thy bands O grave all ſtrove in vain, -
The glorious Ig! 4 detain !

What ſtone, or ſeal could him confine.
When quicken'd by the power divine?
Who ſhould forbid God's fon to riſe

*

When G

VII.
« He is not here“ -O charming Lend! !
Riſen ye ſaints is Chriſt your Lord:

Jeſus by faith we would ſurvey,

The place where once thy body lay.
VIII.

With thee our brighteſt hope ariſe

Of endleſs joys above the ſkies :

O may theſe hopes effectual prove,

J 0o raiſe our ſouls to things above.

CXXVIL Common Metre.

On the ſame.

I.
E bled, the ſaviour bled and dy'd,”
But fell to riſe again:

His croſs the ſure flo laid

For his immortal reign. ©
II.

Not all the bonds and bars of death,
This pris' ner could confine : |
My fon ſhall not corruption ſee,”

So ſpake theyoice divine.

.

Lo! in the eaſt the third day dawns,
In haſte the darkneſs flies; |

Angels ſwift-wing'd to earth deſcend,
Commiſſion'd from the ſkies. |

IV.

See a glad Angel from the tomb
Rolls back the mighty ſtone 3

Tis now our Jeſus quits the duſt
To mount a heayenly throne,

The

HIT MN CXXVIII. wu
V.
The father with new honours crowns
His ſon's exalted head
My ſon, he ſaith, I make thee "Je
Of living and of dead.
VI.
To thee each knee ſhall humbly bow;
Thee, every tongue confeſs:
The nations by thy blood redeem'd
Shall ſing my righteouſneſs.

CXXVIII. Common Metre.
Riſen with Chriſt. Col. iii. 1.

I.
HAT is there on this earthly ball
To ſatisfy my ſoul ? 3
Why ſhould a mind for heaven defign'd, |
Still grovel with the mole ? |
II.
There is a glorious world above,
Unſeen by mortal eye;
Thither the from ſaviour's gone,
No more to W die.
[
He lives, for ever lives and reigns,
Great advocate and king!
Where's now thy boaſted victry grave,
And death where RP ſting?
Riſen with Chriſt, my ſoul muſt riſe
To things that are above: |
Jeſus aſſiſt my flight, and givs
Swift wings of faith and love.

May

150 H YT M N CXXIX.

.
May every ſacred tie unite
To raiſe my ſoul: to the:
My heaven begun ſnall be compleat
When I thy face ſhall ſee.

CXXIX. Common 8

Thomas's unbelief, and Chriſs tondeſcention.
| John xx. 2530. I

I.
OW condeſcending and how *
The riſen Jeſus is?
What condeſcention can be found
That ever equal'd 4 ? |
Behold he ſtands, and ſhews the 2
His ſacred body bore : -
The prints the cruel nails had made
Whence ſtream'd the crimſon gore.
HI.
<« Thomas reach forth thy hand, he cries,
And feel theſe prints you ſee :
Thruſt now thy hand into my ſide
Nor longer —_— be.” 20
1

The man by mighty love ſubdued

Nor doubts, nor queſtions more:
With Sweet ſurprize, behold him now
His Lord divine 1 =
What tho? bleſt Jeſus with our eyes

We neer beheld thy face;
Yet faith adores thee all divine,
And loves to truſt thy grace.

Faith,

—

VI.

Faith, charming ſource of joy and peaer,
It's thouſand bleffings Has:

Increaſe my faith, and make me, Lord,
More bleſt than Thomas was.

| CXXX. Common Metre.
Chriſt's aſcenſion. Luke XXIV. 50, 51.
L.

O Jeſus our aſcending king
Our voices let us'raiſe

His riſen triumphs well may claim

Our nobleſt ſongs o praiſe.
I
Near to my view, celeſtial faith,
The pleaſing proſpect bring;
So ſhall my foul mount upward too,
Dewi
1

Look where the riſen Jeſus ſtands,
His looks all tenderneſs : /
Behold his gracious hands ſtretch'd out
His family to wa =
v.
He bleſſes and in bleſſing takes
His laſt and fond adieu:
Parted at once the air he treads,
And riſes in their 8 "ey

Upwards they gaze with ſteady eye

To ſee him take his flight;
When lo! an interpoſing cloud .
Conceals him from their ſigit.
Eſcorted

152 H T M N - CXXXI
. vp Pf . _— 1
a * 3 N

| | V.

Eſcorted by th* Angelick bands

- "He takes his glorious crown; _
And from his ſeat on God's right-hand
He ſends his ſpirit down.

VI.

Thus he fulfills his gracious word,
And makes his triumphs known:

The Gentile nations learn his name,
And bow before his throne.

CXXXI. Short Metre.
Cbriſts aſcenſion and advocacy, *
Q=T: O my ſoul, the earth, |
And do thy beſt to riſe; 2
To Jeſus ſoar, aſcended far |
Above the lofty ſkies.
II.
Proclaim the glorious day.
And all his triumphs tell:
Sing how he ſpoil'd his mighty foes,
And vanquiſh'd death and hell.
| III.
Behold at God's right-hand
He takes th* appointed feat;
Whilſt Angels their low. homage pay,
And ſaints the conqu'ror greet.
iv ©

>»

With joy they tune their harps,
And in ſweet accents ſing
The conqueſts, and the triumphs too
Of their exalted king. .

HT MN @CXXXIL 153
3 V.
Ye ſaints that dwell on earth
The heavenly concert join:
Procleim th* aſcended king, and ory M
Your advocate divine.
VI.
Sing of his faithfulneſs ; ©
The power he has above:
Tell all his friends his heart is made
Of ſympathy and love.
VIL
Come all the gifts rehearſe
His bounteous hands beſtow : +
Sing the rich virtues of his blood,
T Chrough which theſe bleſſings flow,
VIII.
Rejoice, ye humble ſouls,
' Jeſus your cauſe will plead: -
The father hears his ſon always,
And will ſupply your need.

CXXXII. Long Metre. |
The effuſion of the Spirit. AQs } ü. 1—13
* J.
E ſing the honours 1 the FIR |
On which th' Apoſtles met to pray;

With hearts and tongues in ſweet accord,
Waiting the Pg of their Lord.

When lo! from 19358 a ſudden ſound
By them was heard the place around;
Like wind the blaſt impetuous came
And ſtrait appear bogus tongues of 12 7

154 HT MN CXXXI.
1
The cloven tongues of ſacred fire
On each alight, and each inſpire:
With various tongues at once they —
Barbarian, Roman, Hebrew, Greek. 1
IV.

Each proſelyte from diſtant lands
To hear theſe Galileans ſtands:

And hears amaz*d God's wonders ſhown

In foreign tongues, n in his own.

Thus did the Spirit S oe
And Chriſt his truth and power reveal:
Now 'tis he ſends his —— forth

To eaſt and weſt, 1 and north.

No more like fearful ; they run
The terrors of the croſs to ſhun :
But bold as lions they proclaim
Their riſen maſter's glorious name.
VII.

What wond'rous ſigns theſe men attend
Their heavenly doctrine to commend?
With power inygſted from on high
The dead revive, the hving die.

THE -
'Fhe goſpel runs ſwift like the light, |
And quick diſpels the ſhades of night:
The lands — long in darkneſs lay

Feel the bleſt goipel's quick'ning ray,
IX.

Their fins, and follies now they mourn,
And from their luſts and idols turn: |
Gentile, and Jew with one accord

Unite to praiſe their common Lord. The

3 — N CXXXIII. 155
CXXXIII. Common Metre.

The glorious ſucceſs of the goſpel prediated |
John XU, 32. Mat. xili 31, +

I.
HE glorious triumphs of the croſs
Our chearful tongues ſhall tell:
The triumphs Jeſus had foretold
O'er all the PR, of hell.
I
Yes, when I'm lifted up, he cries,
I'll draw all men to me:
The ſtubborn Jew ſhall own my ſway,
And Gentiles bow the knee.
III.
Small as my kingdom now appears
An empire wide I'Il have:
The nations when I quit my tomb
Shall know. my N to ſave.

From error, and from luſts impure,
My word ſhall cleanſe the ſoul;

So acts the leav'n upon the maſs
Till it ferments the Whole.

V. &

Like the ſniali ſeed the iuftard bears
My goſpePs growth ſhall be:

By heaven well bleſt the little ſeed
"Shall form a — wewls 2

Beneath it's branches feotadivg wide
The nations ſhall repair:
There ſhall they find a cooling ade,
And ſweet refreſhment there.
U 2 ä

166 H T M N cx.

Wen. XN
As from the eaſt unto the weſt
The rapid lightning flies
So ſhall my truth ſwift dart it's beams
To make the ſimple wiſe.
"AL.
My ſervants ſhall my goſpel peil,
My power ſhall m Fer it run
To weſtern climes, and to the realms
Beneath the riſing ſun.

CXXXIV. Common Metre,
True Fr, by the goſpel. John viii. 3 6.

I.
ISLED by error Adam's *
The paths of darkneſs trod;
Not Rome, nor Greece for 1 fam d
So much as knew the God.
II.
The nations bank in gloomy a
The tyrant Satan ſway'd:
Kings, nobles, peafants · ſlaves alike
TH infernal prince obey d.
III.
Dark clouds o'erwhelm'd the choſen race,
And painful was their yoke:
Till Jelas came, and by his death
The bonds aſunder broke. |
Truth, with it's heavenly beams aroſe,
And chas'd the doleful night:
The nations ſunk in death's dark ſhades,
Salute the goſpel's light.
ef: Jeſus

I M N cCXxxxv. 157 |
V; |
Jeſus his peaceful ſceptre takes,

And rules with gentle ſway y /

The heathen lands from bondage freed
To him glad W Pay;

The ſpirit tof pure Fl
— thro' his equal laws:

With cords of love, the prince of peace |
His willing ſubjects draws.

VII.

Sinners obey this Lord, and then

His favour you can't miſs: |

Freed by the Son, your tongues ſhall ſing
No freedom equals his, |

| cxxxv. Common Metre.
The goſpel a glorious light. 2 Tim. i. 10.
3 |
* goſpel, like another ſun;
Shines with a glorious ray ;
Chaſing the darknefs of the night
It 921 the moral *
What bleſſed truths this Book reveals ?
What hope it's pages give?
Pardon and peace the goſpel brings,
And bids the ſinner live.
III.
purer than ſilver moſt refin'd - - + -
It's holy precepts ſhine: *.
The promiſes moſt precious are,
Th' examples are divine.

The

158 H IT M N CxxxvI.

IV.
The father's love, the Saviour grace
Agorn the ſacred
Our giddy youth it gude and
Our moſt * age. 2

Immortal life is brought to light,
A life of perfect joy:

Pleaſures refin'd tha always charm, -
Delights that W ad

Thy goſpel, Lord, demands my fong,
For this thy name I bleſs :

O may my life as well as tongue
It's glorious power confels |

CXXXVI. Common Metre.

Net * of Chriſt, — bis goſpel. Rom.
1. 1

1.
1 ews and Greeks my Saviour ſcorn,
My faith let wits deride;
I'm not Aham d to boaſt of Chriſt,
And him too crucified.
.
How much his goſpel 1 admire
I'm not aſham'd to own;
Treaſures of knowledge here I find,
To Greece and * unknown.
11
My ſoul adores the 4 grace,
The wiſdom of the |
No ſcheme like this to — God,
And none ſo ſafe for man.

HY MN CXXXVIL 159
IV.
In vain the powers of earth and hell
Againſt the goſpel join:
How weak the mortal arm of fleſh ?
How ſtrong is the divine?
V.
O bleſſed day when Jews confeſs'd
Their fancied gains but loſs |!
And Gentiles join'd with Jews to raiſe
The trophies of the croſs.
VI.
Thou God of orace thine arm reveal,
Such bleſſed times reſtore ;
The triumphs of thy goſpel ſpread
To ocean's utmoſt ſhore.

CXXXVII. Common Metre.

A prayer for the ſpread and ſucceſs of the goſpel.
REAT God of grace, ariſe and ſhine
With beams of heavenly light;
From this dark world of fin diſpel
The long and doleful night.
Il. &
No more may ſenſeleſs idols ſhare
The honours due to thee :
May every nation know thy name,
And thy ſalvation ſee.
.
No more may perſecution dare
To lift her iron rod;
No longer ſhed the blood of ſaints,
And plead a zeal for God. |

With

160) HY M N XXV!
1
With it's own pure and native light, a1
Lord, may thy goſpel ſhine : 2
May error fly like noxious miſts
Before this light divine.
V,

Whilſt heaven-born truth her charms reveals,

May love each breaſt inſpire ;
Nor one baſe paſſion ever mix |
To quench this * fire.
Lord, from on high thy Spirit pour,
So ſhall thy kingdom come;
And paradiſe, like Eden fair,
On earth once more ſhall bloom.

CXXXVIII. W Metre.

The excellency of the 89/pel morals.

J.

OW wond'rous pure the goſpel i is!
Ho bright it's precepts ſhine ?
Not Greece nor Rome could ever boaſt,

Of morals fo divine.
II.
Laws to the heart the goſpel gives
To purify within:
The idle word ſtands here condemn'd,
And the mere thought of ſin.
IN.
The laws of love, how far they reach ?
With what ſweet force controll ?
Our angry paſſions ſooth, and ak
The tumults of the foul.

What

H Y MN cXXXX. 161

| IV.
What noble conqueſts, love obtains ? _
What triumphs can itſhew ?

Triumphs the bleſt ſelf-conqu'ror boaſts,
Which heroes "YE Ebner.

Sway'd by tha golpel's precepts we
For enemies will pray:
With love, their hatred; and their curſe
With bleſſings ve repay.
Pity ſhall touch our hearts to ſee
An hungry ſtarving foe; _
The needful bread our hands out-ſtretch'd
Shall joyfully beſtow, |
VII.
But in our Jeſus * tis we ſee
The law of love compleat:.
Earneſt he prays for thoſe who pred
His ſacred hands andfeet. |
8, ; | |
Yes, when extended on the crols, or;
e for their pardon pleads :
Great as their rage, and fury were
His love their rage ex&dds,

CXXXIX. Common Metre.
Nn the _— Gal. v. 22, 23.

Wes. gentle 2 renews the 7
In living green array d; |

In nature's varied ſcenes we ſee
The life divine P

Man's

162 u r N CELL!

Man's heart the Soil, the word the ſeed |
Whence to expect 1 the crop:

Whilſt grace divine like falling ſhowers t
Supports the . hope.

The trees of righteouſneſs how fair?
What fin Þ ſtrike the eye ?

Fruits-ripenin pening ſtill when, 4 8 works,
And nature's ſelf 12 die.

Wach hath love? and peace how ſweet?
How bright doth goodne ſhine? —
Long-ſuff*ring, temp'rance, rom and} oy,
Shall make us all divine.

V.
In idle rites, in fiery zeal
No fruit is to be found; MH
And worſhip too that is mere form
Will not improve Ae
I
In vain our paſſions are on fire.
If ſtill impure the heart:
Our hopes will fail, and we alas?
Shall miſs tit better part.

Divine influences. ——
I.
T influence, mighty God! is. ir

Through nature's ample round:
In heaven, on Temes through air and —_
Thine energy is found. d

Life

H' 1 _ N CXL.

163

Life, motion, f Geer with thee reſide; -
And beauty's ſofteſt charms: _
Thy power in every tempeſt blows,” |
. And in each — warms.
I
The thirfty earth with thouſand mouths
Drinks in thy falling ſhowers: ©
Thou mak'ſt the hills and as ſmile ö
Wr flowers.

Thy ſacred influence, Lord, 1 weed

To form my heart anew :

O cleanſe my foul from every fin

And thy ſalvation - of *

F ather of lights ! 2 ſpirit grant
guide m rr
Thy — ſhal — every "cloud,

And ene _—

V
Su upported by thy heavenly grace,
2 pag (hs — ET
Thy grace ſhall make eac burden light, |
And every murmur 551
VII. : ._

Chear'd by thy ſmiles, PI! fearleſs tread |

The gloomy. of death:
And with the hopes of endleſs bliſs

Reſign to hee my breath. ele

, bo 4 8 * &
* : S F
1 1 4 ' p 7
= EE p EF ”S wt 1 3 Th

HY H Y M N ox
Ro CXLI. Common Metre.

The brazen JOU: Numb, Xxi. 8, 9, John
ili. 14, 15.

HEN Iſrael's ſons, a bing race,
Deſpis'd their heavenly bread ;
God bid his fiery ſerpents fly, ©
To ſtrike the rebels dead.
II.
Swift like an arrow Giftnghithe air,
The baleful reptiles fly;
The rebels feel the deadly wound,
And groan, and 4 — dhe and die. 6.1
II
A part ſtill live; but O whar wobl
What agonizing pain!
The fatal darts ſtick faſt within,
And human help is Vain.
N
Now *tis they feel the — of —
And mourn their evil ways: |
Now Moſes feels his Iſrael's griefs, -
And wr his lirael prays.
V. .
He prays, and ee quite difarm'd,
Forſakes her awful throne : |
| Mercy aſcends her milder ſeat, _
And makes her N known.
VI.

See Moſes raiſe by! God's command,
The brazen ſerpent high; _

The wounded truſt the grace divine,
And look with eager eye. How

= Theſe fiery ſerpents, it ſhould ſeem were flying ſerpents.
See Iſa. xiv. 29. :

n I M N XII. 168
| VIL
How ſtrange the means? hut in God's hand
The Fay... = how ſure? f
Not one that view'd the * ban a0 7
But found a ſpeedy: Cure. er! atgt
VIII. .
Thus, on his croſs, Cocks only ſon V Bars
By men was lifted: high; u
To heal our wounds, and fave our fouls
When threat ned _ was nighh.
Sinners believe; look to his croſs, ..
Repent, and, ye ſhall live:
His death eternal life procures,
And grace this life. ſhall | Se. ils Lids

CXLIL Common Metre, ab. 20

The loſt ſheep found, or joy in heaven on the

converſion Seat Luke xv. 3. _—
"E

Wi * kind ſhepherd from his fold,

Has loft a ſtraying ſneep;

Through vales, o'er hills he anxious 'roves,
And climbs the 1 ſteep.

.

But O the] joy! the — ſweet! l

When he the wand'rer finds:

Up in his arms he takes his charge,
And to his ſhoulders binds.

. he haſtes to tell his Joys, 5
And. make his bliſs compleat : + - --
The neighbours hear the news, and: R

The joyful ſnepherd greet. Such

| Pleas'd with the news the ſaints below,

r661 H. T M N cxlali.
IV.

Such, att much greater is the Joy
When but one ſifiner turns;

When thie poor wretch with broken hear,
His fins and ——

ha be s their tongues employ:
e ſkies the tidings 80,
2 heaven is W joy.
V

Well-pleas'd the Father ſees, and hears

The conſcious finner wee
Jeſus receives him in his arms,
And owns kim for his ſheep. |
VII.
Nor Angels can their Joys contain
But kindle with new fire: |
A wand'ring ſheep's teturn'd they ſing,
And ftrike the ſounding lyre.

cx inn. Long Metre,
The redemption of man the joy of Angels.
I.
» Epzmerion--- tis a glorious ſcheme 3- ;
. Dwell, O my foul, on this bleſt theme:
A theme enquiring Angels view,
With growing zeal, with raptures new.
Though once they dre a flaming word,
*Gainſt man the bel to their Lord;
Yet man they love, and fing the grace
Deũgu d by t heaven for Adam s race. *
. 9 n

U N M NI XIV. 2x67
When biit one hong gag the read
That leads to death, and turns e

Joyous they hear the news, and ſing
Th? increaſing n their King.

Well. pleas'd they ſee heaven's nhew- Horn 855
Comm ita to their tender care;

And ſwift th fly from worlds above

On errands full of of * loye. 1

But what bold 4 can diſplay,

The joy of Angels on that day,

When they with Chriſt their Lord ſhall c come,
And ſing hi e ver the tomb? -

The piqus race, Gade beſt eleft,

From diſtant parts they ſhall coll

To ſhare the rich and full reward

and promis d by their Lad. ?

- -- CYLIV . Long Metre,
Angels miniſtring to Chriſt and the ſaints.

Hl.
GEE Gabriel ſwift deſednd to earth, * 7
Glad to foretell a Savigur's birth: 4

Hark! a full choir of Angels ſing
The new- born * and the king.
Behold theſe. ſwift-· wing d envoys wait.
On Jeſus in his humble ſtate
The deſart, and the garden prove

Their glowing zeal, their tender Jove.

168 H IT M N CXLV.

But who their mighty Joys can tell,
When jeſus 3 0 death and hell? |
They ſaw the glorious conqu'ror riſe,
And filVd his n 4 ſurprize. .
They ſaw the conqu? ror mount on high,
To glorious worlds beyond the y 3
Eſcorted by a ſhining band,

To take his place at God 8 right nd.

Still are theſe glorious n hoſts above
Employ'd 1 in meſſages: of love:

On ſaints below chearful —
Nor think the _ their ſtate.

Jeſus, my Lord, my kling friend,
May theſe thy ſervants me attend
Through life, and when I quit this clay
Safe to thine arms my foul convey.

*
” *

| CXLV. common Metre.
The returning . Luke xv, 11, &c.

F AR from U kathape houſe behold
The prodigal depart :

* No boads fem: or of love
as +.

Pleas'd with the dream of liberty, |
To filthy luſt a ſlave

In riot ſoon he ſpends the wealth
2 father's bounty gave. |

Now

H * M N. CXLV: 3
„Ma ee III. 17 At
Now famine ſhews her 3
And hunger makes him pine: AY
Could huſks ſupport, the wretch ein
Have fed on N. pov ſwine.
3
No gin wy finds with tender words.
To mitigate his grief :
No ear is open to his cries, /
No hand to his relief.
MON: Ami
Diſtreſs ſo great, 0 1 7
Awakes the ſerious thought:
The rebel long to reaſon loſtt
To his right r brought. De
ce My father's houſe has bread, — cries
1 And bread there is to ſpare:
Why ſhould I die? there ſtill is hope
* To get a lervanCy ſhare.
VII. +" | =
1. 1 vill ai. vichbor delay, I
And to my father go:
&« Pity may touch a —
< To ſee ſueh depth of woe.
1 A
« Father, Pll ſay, againſt kind heaven
« Pve ſinn'd, and in thy fight : -
„The name of child I dare not uſe,
<« But beg a ſervantꝰs right. f 1
IX. |
Reſolv'd he goes, when from aber
ebe father ſpies his ſon:

T | "_

=

1590 HT M N CXLV.
The father feels his bowels yearn,
n 115
The ſtarving wretch he views, and reads
Repentance in his. face: |
Around his neck he. throws his arms,
And gives the TR, Nein OY;
The ſon confeſſes, and with joy
The father hears his voice:
With kiſſes he the pardon ſeals,
And bids his child rejoice.
| 399227 XII.
Ij!be ſervants, at their lord's command,
Nov ſtrip the wretch forlorn;
With the beſt robe they him array,
And with a 128 adorn.
8
A ſumptuous feaſt the father makes,
And wine and joy goround: _ ©
Be glad, he cries, the.dead now lives,
The ſon I loſt is found.
ren.
Such welcome ſpall all ſinners find,
When they their errors mourn; .
And from the dangerous paths of vice
To wiſdom 8 ways return.

God hears well pleasd their humble cry,

Their ſins he will forgive: 2.

Mercy to ſhew is his deli ht,
His ſweet po. or a

The

HT MN CXLVI.

CXLVI. Common Metre.
Te humble and grateful penitent.
Ox, waſt thou ſtrict to mark our crimes
What mortal fleſh could ſtand ?
guilty world muſt ſink beneath
The vengeance of thy hand.
J.
How many a are the debts I owe ?
Increaſing ſtill each day;
Ten thouſand talents are thy due,
And I have 1 "_ to pay.
II.
A contrite heart I would preſent
To thee a ſacrifice:
A broken and a contrite heart
Thou, Lord, wilt not deſpiſe.
IV.
My hope upon thy mercy reſts,
Which glories to forgive;
Which freely pardons through thy fon,
And bids the mourner live.
X. D
Great are my crimes, but not beyond
Thy mercies wide extent:
Thou never haſt, or wilt reject
One humble penitent.
.
Chear'd by the hopes of pard' ning grace,
Let all my actions prove
Thy mercy only can exceed
The greatneſs of my love.

Y 2 | The

172 H YT MN CXLVII.

CXLVII. Common Metre,
The Phariſee and Publican. Luke xvili. 10-18.
I.
EE how the haughty Phariſee
Within the temple ſtands; _
To heaven with lofty eyes he looks,
And lifts — hands.
No ſins he owns, nor prays for grace,
But boaſts his righteouſneſs,
His ſtated faſts, his num 9 4 tithes,
His merits in exceſs.
III.
Not ſo the humble Publican, 3
With down-caſt looks he ſtands;
To heav'n he dares not lift his eyes,
Or ſtretch his guilty hands.
IV.
Conſcious he ſmites his wounded breaſt,
And mercy is his cry;
„Spare, gracious Lord, O ſpare, nor let
«A mourning ſinner die.”
V.
To heaven his humble prayer aſcends,
And brings ſalvation down;
But the vain boaſter goes his way,
Rejected with a frown.
VI.
Whilſt like the Publican T ſtand,
And feel the wound within;
Shew mercy, Lord, forgive and cleanſe -
Ay ſoul from evry K

The

HT MN "CXEVIIL 173
VII.
The humble mourner — ft 2
And give the promis d grace: 111
To honour thou ſhalt ratſe their names,
But wilt the proud abaſe.

cxLvin. Common Metre.

The parable of the weading garment. . Mat.
xXxXii. 11-13. |

ISTEN my ſoul, the king of heaven
| . Invites thee for his gueſt;
No common food he bids thee eat,
But gives a ſacred —
I
Not all the daintics earth can boaſt,
Can ſuch proviſion ſhew; |
The rich are welcom'd, and the poor
The king will welcome too.
III.
Nor rank, nor birth will he regard,
But 'tis th' internal dreſs; 5 *
The inner man, full dreſs'd in all
The robes of righteouſneſs,
IV.
Theſe nuptial robes, my ſoul put on
And theſe for ever wear :
With time they fade not, and by uſe
They grow more heavenly fair.
V.

In theſe array'd with gracious eye
The king ſhall thee ſurvey; -
By him approv'd thou ſhalt: rejoice
In the deciſive day. |

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vi. |
But ſhould: thou want th* internal dreſs,
Thou haſt an name;
Struck dumb, thy ſilence more than words
Shall tell thy — and ſhame.
VII.
<« Bind him in everlaſting chains
Ol darkneſs and deſpair:“
How after thy vain hopes wilt thou
This dreadful ſentence bear?

CXLIX. Long Metre.

Seeking the pearl of price. Mat. xiii, 4546.
1;
Mmortal pearls! delightful ſound! ©.
But where, O where ſhall theſe be found?
What place beneath theſe lower ſkies
Contains the rich „ en prize?
I
In vain this earthly globe we trace,
Or range thro ether's ampler ſpace;
Baſe earth | ſuch wealth thou ne*er didit fee, ”
Nor can it, air, be found in thee. |
I.
Tis the bleſt goſpel's richer field
Muſt this immortal treaſure yield:
Here glows the inexhauſted mine,
Where pearls and gems for ever ſhine.
IV.

Why ſhould 1 then this world purſue

For bliſs creation neꝰ er can ſhew ?
Why ſeek I not this wealth divine

Shall

Shall groveling W toil and ſweat
Earth's mean and dubious wealth rogers
And ſhalt not I like ardor thew pay: 2
Who have a heaven e in view? 2

| VL
Seek then, my ſoul, 'th* immortal prize,
Whate'er it coſt, and you'll be wiſe E
Tis droſs you quit, deluſive toys,
For heaven's unmix d fubſtantial 3 Joys.)

| CL. Common Metre.

The rich fool ſurprized. Luke xii. 16=22

IL
\ELUDED fouls! who think 0 ke. ſ
A ſolid bliſs below: l |
Bliſs! the fair flower of Paradiſe, _ --
On earth can W 480 L
See how the fooliſh wretch is pleas'd
T* increaſe his worldly:ſtore; _ -
Too ſcanty now he finds his barns,
And ſighs for room for more.
III.
What ſhall I do? diſtreſt he cries,
This ſcheme will I purſue:
« My ſcanty barns I will pull down,
And build _ large and new,
V.
Here will I lay my fruits, and bid
My ſoul to take its eaſe:
Eat, drink, be glad, my laſting ſtore
2 7 give what joys I pleaſe. 5

Scarce

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176 H'Y M N CLI.
Scarce had he ne i HY lo! —
Th' Almighty made reply?
« For — doſt thou provide, thou fool,
This night thyſelf ſhalt ak 5:10
| VI.
Teach me, my God, all EN Jays
Are but an empty dream;
And may I ſeek my bliſs alone 10
In thee the good ſupreme.

CLI. Common Metre.

7. be parable 9 the rich man aud. Lazarus...
* Le 1. 9 %%%

EH OL the vain voluptuous man
B In richeſt purple dreſt; 1
Sumptuous his fare from day to * l
And ſoft his bed _ | 10
Wrapt in himſelf, his cruel hands
Refuſe the poor a part:
Not virtue deep diſtreſs'd can touch L
His hard unfceling heart.
III.
Behold che pious beggar laid
Before the rich man's gate
Hunger, diſeaſe and wounds unite
To make his — great.
To heav'n reſign d, he envies not
The rich their uſeleſs ſtore;
The crumbs that fell from lux'ry's board
He aſks, and craves no more. =Y

H fr M at Y INS. 277
My, Vin. 2
The dogs, as i thet by pi pity touc W
The helpleſs ſaint ſurround;
With balmy tongue theſe rend'rer 0 }
Lick gently r r „ bt
VIII.

But ſee! the n . now ſhifts, |
The pious beggar die:
Angels ſwift bear his ſoul away
To worlds e GH ſkies.
II. bz 372 114 325
There, lodg'd in Abr'am's ban he
Enjoys a ſweet repoſe:
From life's pure ftreams refreſh'd he now
Forgets his former woes.
VIII.
The rich man dies, and haſtes away
To hear his awful doom: .
What then avails the pomp of death,
The honours of a domb! An
IX.
Snatch'd from his blifs, O ſudden change!
How dreadful his ſurprize!
Too late from life's falſe dream he wakes,
In hell he lifts his eyes. . 8 |
X.
In torments now to heaven he looks,
But looks and prays in vain: n
One drop he aſks to quench his tongue,
But can't that drop obtain.
3 |
Whatever, Lord, thy bounty gives,
A portion large or ſmall: a, 4
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I would not have my beſt things here,
And here receive my all.
XII. :
O cutting chought! to * the ES
And view a diſtant heaven:
To ſee the bliſs Which IJ have loft
To pious beggars =—_ i
XIII.
With Laz'rus rather may I be:
With various griefs oppreſt:
But in good Abr am's boſom find
At laſt a place of reſt. £1

CLII. 0 ommon Metre.
Parable of the ten Virgins. Mar. XXV. I. &c.

I.
RxpakE, ye ſaints, to meet your 1
Nor ſleep nor ſlumber more
Bright be your lamps, your veſſels fill d
To feed the avs ſtore.
He comes, he comes, may be the cry
In midnight's deepeſt gloom :
Should then ou lamps be void of oil
How ſad mult be cur doom?
III.
In vain, when tis too late, we ſeek
A freſh ſupply to get;
In vain, when once the door 1 is ſhut
Our folly we regret.
| IV.
en Lord, open we may cry,
But then . his heart:
Þ a I know

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I know you not, the judge will fay, bl
Depart, from me *

Lord, for thy iy may I wait
With loins well girt about;
In heavenly virtues may l ſhine, N

Nor let my lamp ey. Qur.

Then will the bridegroom me admit,
And own me for his friend:
My ſoul ſhall feaſt on es love,
Nor ſhall the banquet end.

CLI. Long Metre.
The Atheiſt reprov d.
I.
Lvsn Atheiſts, bluſh, your airy Ken |
Your chance, and atoms are but dreams:
Science in vain you proudly boaſt,
In errors endleſs mazes loſt.
Wo
Nature ſurvey, the mighty whole
From north to ſouthern diſtant pole:
Heaven, earth and ſeas, and worlds of light
For ages hid from human ſight.
III.
Say then, could chance this fabric rear
So great, ſo good, ſo wond'rous fair?
Could cies the heavenly bodies move,
And in ſtrict order bid them rove?
IV. Ty
Does chance the various ſeaſons rule,
The blooming ſpring, the autumn cool?
1 7 Wont Bid

18: Uũ̃. MN CLIV.
Bid ſummer's heat enrich the year,
And winter pinch gf froſts ſevere?
Sways chance the empire of the main? |
Can chance it's proudeſt waves reſtrain ?
Command the ſenſelels tides to flow ?
Or teach the ebb it's hour to know ? -
VI.
What is all nature but deſign? Un .
Her works, but ſkill and power A
The God we ſee in every form,
From the Arch-angel to the worm.
VII.
The wondrous ſcale of beings view,
Their nice gradations cloſe purſue :
Deny then, Sceptic, if you can
A proper place aſſign'd for man.
Bc.
Man know thyſelf, thy rank well kun,
And pay.the mighty debt you owe:
The God adore, who did inſpire
Your frame with an immortal fire.
Man view thy foul, nor let it be
A ſlave when Gd would have it free:
Nor be it ſaid that brutes obey,
Whilſt man rejects his maker's ſway.

CLIV. Common Metre.
Ingratitude lamented and reſolved againſt.
OD of my life, my heart inſpire
| The grateful ſong to raiſe;
Thy gifts all numbers. far exceed,
And far tranſcend my praiſe. But

HT M N CIM 167
II.
But few returns to thee I've made
For gifts each day.renew'd: _
| Day tells the night, and PE: the day.
Of my ingratitude.
| >
Ingratitude that helliſn crime,
Henceforth would 1 —
Nor let the ſin of devils find
A place within my breaſt.
IV.
Ne'er may I fink beneath the brutes,
Which man their owner know:
Ne'er may I taſte thy gifts, and ſlight
The fource from whence they flow.
V.
Let ſtupid wretches thee forget,
In whom they live and move;
My ſong would ſpeak a grateful heart,

My life the ſong _

Whilſt life, and breath remain, my God,
Thy praiſes PII repeat:

And hope in better worlds to ſing,
Where praiſe ſhall be cAnplear.

CLV. Long Metre.

NazaretÞ's ingratitude and frupidity ; or Chriſt
rejected in his own Mat. xiii. 53.
Stupid Nazareth! not to fee |
Thatheaven's beſt prophetdweltinthee ;
Ungrateful city] beyond meaſure baſe! .
15 ſcorn thi 1 image: of the father's *
eſus

162 HY MN CLI.
i;

' Jeſus had gifts for theein ſtore,

And giving wiſh'd to give thee more:
Why then deny'd his hands ber?
O Naz'reth! aſk thy unbelief.
.
Baſe crime ! tis thine to blind the mind,
And make een goodneſs ſeem unkind:
What good, curſt ſin, didſt thou prevent
To ſtop the arm „ 26008
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Let faithleſs Jews ſhut faſt their eyes,
And all Meſſiah's grace deſpiſe:
We in his humble form will own
The king defign'd _ David's throne.
Whence, bleſſed Jeſus, but from heaven
Could wiſdom ſuch as thine be given?
And whence thy works of pow'r and love,
But from that pow'r —_ rules above ?
I
Let Jews amaz'd inſult with ſcorn
Poor Joſeph's ſon, of Mary born:
Thy higher birth we will record, |
Great David's ſoſt, and greater Lord.

CLVI. Common Metre,
Human frailty bewailed.
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LAS! how faulty are the. beſt? -
How weak the ſtrongeſt are?
Who has the wiſdom every hour
I 0o ſhun the ſecret ſnare?e:n?:

Dangers,

H T M N CLV. 183
' Dangers, | in diſtant proſpect bn. |
How ſmall do: We appear? |
Champions we ſeem but cowards prove
Soon as the 1 near.
III.
Thus Peter in the ging hour
His boaſted courage loſt:
And knew vain man, alas !. too late 7
His weakneſs to his coſt.
IV.
Mark well my ſoul the dang' rous path
Where &en the ſaints have fell:
Fly from the downward, road, and know =
Its ſteps take hold of hell.
V.
In the ſtrait path that leads to life
Proceed with all thy care:
Smooth as the broad way now may ſeem,
There s nought but dangers there.
VI.
When dangers threaten, O my God!
Preſerve my ſoul from harm:
No foe can hurt whilſt I'm ſecur'd
. By an almighty arm. "y

CLVII. Common Metre.

The Juggard reproved and inſtructed. Prov.
vi. 6.

.
82 to the earth, it loudly ſpeaks

To every liſtening ear: | .
Birds, beaſts, , inſects, teach dull man
His maker to revere. Go

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Her ways conſider well: WL
Herwikdoai learn; ſo ſpake the king

Whoſe wiſdam did excell. -

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Sagacious ſhe without a guide

By inſtinct only led;

Fearful of want,” in harveſt hours | +3

Provides her winter bread...
IV.
Scorn not * little teacher, man,

In wiſdom great her ſize : A
But bluſh that bees, and emmets wo. 1 4
Thy folly ſhould chaſtize. If
V.

Neer be it ſaid that toiling ants
PR 2 their ſtock of grain;
plects his great concern,
l e to * 21 |

' Ariſe my ſoul, and A Wm part,

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The winter haſtes when you cant work,
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The ſluggard inſerufed, ſecond part : Or, the
accepted time, and 1 day of MP dvation.

QT: how the little . ant

Improves the harveſt bun: 289.8

Whilſt ſummer lafts into her cells, * 4
The choiceft grain ſhe pours. 9 N BS |

H Y M N CLIX 185
| II. |
Learn from her wayk to act thy part:
And mind each feafon'well:
Learn from her ſchool the ſocial arts,
In goodneſs to excel.
II.
Whilſt life remains, our harveſt laſts .
But youth of life's the prime:

Beſt is this ſeaſon for our work,
And this thi — time.
To- day attend, is wiſdont's voice, ©

To-morrow folly cries :
And ſtill to-morrow *tis, when ob 1

To- day the ſinner —

Jeſus now ſtands before the door,
He knocks, he kindly ſpeaks :
Sinners be wife, this gueſt receive,
Your happineſs he _
]

When conſcience ſpeaks its voice regard,
And ſeize the tender hour: |
Humbly implore the promis grace,
And God will give the power.

- CLIX. Common Metre.
Wiſdom's exhortation 6, youth. Eccl. xii. I.

Tu” N bes ef Adam's race
Atte 7

nd to wiſdom's voice:
Remember now your maker God,
And make his ways your choice.”
A a Know

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Know *twas his Hand that ſhap'd your clay,
A human form to bear :
His breath your nobler ſpirit gave,
And ſtamp'd his image there.
—_
Each circling day to day declares
In him ye live and move:

i He ſmiles upon your growing years,
And crowns your lives with love.

1
His thouſand thouſand precious gifts
Tour daily thanks require:
The homage of your lips he aſks,
Your heart he claims entire.
V. ,
Drawn by his love, without delay, |
To him your hearts reſign :
Time ſhall approve the act, and you
Will ne'er the choice repine.
VI.
Thrice happy you, whoſe early ſteps |
Incline to wiſdom's ways : - -
God's favour ſhall your toils reward,
And peace ſhall cloſe your days.

CLX. Common Metre.

The excellency of divine wiſdom, and ber gifts.
Prov. iii. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

J.
ISDOM how Penaten 18 wwe form |!
How bright her features ſhine ?
Ten thouſand nameleſs charms are hers

To ſpeak her birth divine.

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HT MN CLXI, 187
II. |
From heaven to our mean earth ſhe comes,
And ſhews her ſmiling face:
Her hands with choiceſt gifts ſhe fills,
To bleſs the human race.
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Immortal life, unfading joys,
In her right hand ſhe brings :
Riches and honours grace her left,
Beyond the ſtate of kings.
IV. |
Not gold, nor the bright. ſparkling gem.
Can with her gifts compare:
compard with her the fine gold's dim,
And gems no luſtre wear. |
5
Happy the man whoſe feet incline
To walk in wiſdom's ways:
Pleaſure ſhall:ſweeten all the road,
And peace ſhall end his days.
| VI.
In brighter worlds beyond the ſkies,
His bliſs ſhall be compleat :
There ſhall he pluck from life's fair tree,
The fruits which angels cat.

CLXI. Common Metre.
The danger of procraſtination. Prov. xxvii. 1.
Ecc. X11. 1. Jer. xiii. 23.
O DAV attend, ye ſons of men,
To wiſdom's heavenly voice : |
Her counſels well ſhall guide your feet,

And make your hearts rejoice.
A a 2 2 Say

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II.
Say nox ye vin one day be wiſe, bay,
But now it is too ſoon:

Know well, gay youth, thy ſun may 65

Before it ſees a non.
III.
O Owhatis life! a ſpan, a lower:
Whoſe morning beauties fade:
A fleeting vapour loſt in air,
The ſhadow of a ſhade.
.

Why then ſhould frail and .

On future years preſume?

Man, whom an hoſt of foes furround,

To puſn him to the tomb.
V.
Few ſee the evil a of age,
Thoſe days of ſore complaint:
But ſtill more rare the ſinner old
Becomes the aged ſaint.
VI.
When Zthiopians ſhall with ſpeed
Put off their darkeſt hue z; _
When hungry [eopards quit their ſpots
Nor more their prey purlue :
«2 E
Then aged ſinners will in haſte
Deſert the paths they trod;

And in the evening of their lives

Devote mY 1 God.
bie
Seize then, the preſent moments ſeize,
Since time nor MIT will ſtay :
Teo late alas! you will repent
When _ have loſt your day.

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CLXII. Short Metre.
The world's temptations, Mat, vii. $3, 14.
IN is the road, my God,

That leads to thine abode;
But thoughtleſs mortals chuſe, alas!
The broad and 1 road.

Flatter d by vleakitre *
They catch the glittering bait:
Too late convinc'd they find che cheat,

And mourn their _ hed fate.

Fools ſway'd by fordid
Their _ and _ ſell; :

Gold is their God, and all their heaven
To ſee e 5 8 8

At honour's ſhrine Behold

Tb' aſpiring ſon of fame;

With heaven and conſcience too he 22
To get an empty *
Whilſt othets miſs the way,
Lord, teach me to beware:

I would not venture once to walk
Where I ſuſpe& bi. |

Into the CEO = 1
My arm -

Temptations then ſhall Ae vain
To turn my feat aſide.

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ä CLXIII. Common Metre.
The difficulties and folly of fn.” Prov. xiii, 15,
| I.
NHAPPY youth! whole ſteps no more
The paths of virtue keep: .
What pains he feels till vice prevails
To lull his fears . 2
How fooliſh is the ſinner's part?
What madneſs him excites?

Againſt his conſcience and his peace,

Againſt himſelf he fights.
III.
Freedom he boaſts, but is the ſlave
Of each imperious luſt:

The ſerpent's curſe is furely his |

To crawl and lick the duſt.
IV.
Smooth as the paths of vice may ſeem
The ſinner's lot is hard-
His pleaſures have their ſtings and wrath,
Shall be his ſure reward.
1
When Pe has fix'd his awful doom
He will alaſs!: too late

With unavailing tears and ſighs

Lament his hopeleſs ſtate.
VI. |
Ye ſons of vice your toil forbear,
Religion courts your choice:

: Eaſy my ways, ſhe faith, and ſweet,

Hear, mortals, hear my voice.

Miſdom's

HY. M NN CEXIV. 191
CLXIV. Common Mere. |

Wiſdom's exhortation; or the ſure and.only way to
be rich, honourable and happy. Prov. viii. 18.

I.
Ear,'mortals, hear; tis wiſdom ſpeaks,
With voice and looks divine
To her who comes to make you bleſt
| Both ear and heart — 197
I
Behold her ſteps, how'graceful each?
See heav'n in her bright eye:
« Embrace, ſhe cries, my gifts 1
« For why ſhould — die?
I
« Subſtantial riches I beſtow,
« Which India cannot boaſt :
Knowledge, whoſe fruits immortal grow,
And ſhew a richer coaſt. |
1
Honour and pleaſure, peace and j joy,
„With liberal hands I give:
« Pleaſures refind, that never cloy,
And joys that ever live.”
1
Are theſe the bleſſings thou wilt give, 139 4
O wiſdom, heavenly fair! 51
And ſhallT longer be content
To go without my 2 ?
Moſt gracious God, fix thou my choice"
In thee th' eternal All:
I'll be content, and let the Great :
Divide this earthly ball.

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192 H VF * N CEXV.

- CLXv. Common Mette.
re gabe invitation. Jia. Iv. , 2, 3.

In

"\OME, ye that thirſt to living ſtreams 5

Where pleaſure gently, roll?

Come, and with ſtreams divinely pure
Refreſh your wearied ſouls,

II.
Come, and the — bleſlings ſhare,
Ye that with hunger pine:

| Here flow the fireams, than milk more ire

More rich-than 1 og wine.
Why ſhould you laviſn aut 'your ſtores
For that which is not breadꝰ
Why toil unſatisfy d, and ſtill
The painful *
Hearken to me, ſaith grace divine,
My choiceſt dainties eat:
Come let your fouls now take their fill
Of my celeſtial _—
ma |
Hear, and obey my gracious laws,
And ye ſhall never die:
My cov'nant which ſhall ne'er be broke
Shall all your wants ſupply.
VI.
This cov'nant David's royal fon
Has ſeal'd with his awn blood:
Pardon and peace flow fweetly down
T* enrich the ſacred flood.
Redemption

H "M N | CLXVI.
CLXVI. Common Metre.
gr * the precious Blood 155 Chrif.
| 1 Pet. i. 18; 19. |
| J.
Edemption O bleſt news for man!
Where ſhall the price be found?
Scarch the wide world from eaſt to weſt,
Above, beneatfi, 1 ground. s
Say, if the mines of rich Peru | |
Conceal it from your eyes,
You'll ſearch earth's inmoſt bowels Sd
Till you obtain the x rize? 2
| III. |
Ves, you may PE”, but, ſearch | in vain,
*Tis not, O earth, in thee: _ |
A world, and thouſand worlds paid down
Can't fet one captive free.
IV.
Not gold, nor ſilver oer releas' d
A ſoul in fetters bound: |
New chains of guilt, alaſs! 1 they *
And darts that * wound.
The blood of Chriſt; that ſpotleſs lamb !
Our wounds alone could cure:
His precious blood alone redeem,
And make our pardon ſure.
TW" - 1
Redeem'd, my Saviour, by thy blood,
From ſins, worſt chains, ſet free;
Not to myſelf 1 now muſt live,
But live, my Lord, to ther.
B b Invitation

193

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CLxXVI. Somme Metre.

—— *

nun to the fountain of U * Rev. xxii. 17.

ye that hit, to livirig find

. e waters ne'er decay:
Ye drooping, fainting ſouls, come now,
For way ſhould ye ; dh ?

With broken Gifternis, void of good,
No more yourſelves deceive:

No ſprings, for healing virtues fam d,

Can rer ſouls telieve.
III.

In rich abundance flow: -

Drink, and be wiſe, come drink again,
That wiſer you 10 grow.

Not all the cordials nature boaſts -
Such vigour can impart: .

Theſe ftreams make even weakneſs trong,
And glad the ee n heart.

Hark ! tis the Spirit bids you dome,
The bride too joins his voice:

Let him that hears return the ſound,

And make the nappy choice.
V

Let every ſon of Adam dome,
For all is freely given

Whoever will may Atink and live,
Such is the grace of heaven.

The

HI MN ELAVIL 193
CLXVII. Long Metre. J

The promiſe of God's holy ſpirit; or an earthly
and heavenly parent compar'd. Luke xi. 18.

I.

BAA e parents bowels move,
And filent ſpeak their tender love;
The child obſerves the father's eye,
And finds a quick _ rich ſupply.

What wretch ſo harden'd Cer was known

For bread to give the flinty ſtone?
Serpents for fiſh, hoever gave

To hungry children when they crave?
III.
Shall nature prompt the tender
And ſhew the father's inmoſt heart?
- And ſhall not God his children mind,
A heavenly father be morekind?
IV.
Great as his power, ſo great his dove,
Our praiſe, our hi heſt. thoughts above:
Love is his name, his nature too,
What will not love 9 dot

This ſource, from Wache all bleſſings flow,
Sends down his ſtreams to all below:
He that do freely ay e lis fon,

ſe to 2

His ſpirit will re

Light, life, and * God will 1 barem

To all who ſeek with: heart:

The humble ſoul ſhall neer complain

He aſk'd, and onges and knock d in vain.

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CILXIX. n Metre.

Defring internal purity. Pſ. li. 10. —Xix. 12.
LI
FARCHER of hearts! thy p piercing 105
Pervades the ſhades of night: |
| Whate'er I ſay, or do or think,
Lies open to thy ſight.
II.
Should an unworthy thought of thee -
Ariſe within my breaſt;
Ere I the vile intruder mark
To thee 'tis manifeſt,
III.
Should I neer do my neighbour wrong
But dare to with him ill;
THY injurious thought thou wilt reſent,
And hold me . |
iv
Should no foul words, or deeds a
My reputation ſpoil;
Yet would a wanton wiſh indulg'd
My fooliſh heart defile.
V.
Teach me, O Bord, myſelf to know,
Shew me each ſderet ſin;
From all vain thoughts ſecure my ſoul,
And make me mY "gl
No more may wand'ring Fruits aue,
Thy day of ſacred reſt:
Nor in my cloſet let them find
. place within my breaſt,

With

H T MN CLXX.

197
VII. |

With thoughts of thee, and things divine,
Poſſeſs my heart each day:

Faſt bind my thoughts with cords of lone,
Nor let them dare to ſtray.

CLXX. Colhſin Metre.
.T he chriſtian race. 1 Cor. ix. 24.

I.

OT for a fading crown we ſtrive,
Which antient champions wore ;
Heavenly our race, and ſuch the crown,

| To which our ſpirits ſoar.
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The world, the fleſh muſt be deny d.
And Satan's wiles oppos'd :
"Tis vain to think the conflict oer
Till life itſelf is clos'd.
III. ä
Rouſe, ſtupid man, ſtretch every nerve,
And run th' appointed race:
Each foe oppoſe, caſt off the weight,
That moſt retards thy pace. |
IV.
With prying eye thy ſoul ſurvey,
Its ſecret mazes ſcan :
Study thy faults, thy weakneſs too,
Beſt knowledge this for man.
.
Preſume not on thy little ſtrengt,
Suſpect thy weaker part:
The jealous watch, when danger's near,
Will beſt ſecure the heart.

The

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| VI.

The chriſtian hero nobly checks
The riſing thought of ſin:

The fire he quenches in *
Nor lets the flame * |

[

He makes the ſacred word his rule.
And follows Chriſt his light:

He brings down heavenly help by prayer,
And keeps the prize.in light.

VIII.

Awake my ſoul, exert thy ſtrength,
To run this race divine:

Hold on thy courſe, and then the prize,
The mighty prize is thine.

CLXXI. Common Metre. |
2 be chriſtian life a Pilgrimage. 23h xi. 13.
I.
Ions and 3 "Y earth,
The ſaints have ever been:
Happy thaſe holy men who liv'd
By faith of things unſeen:
H.
Our journey thrdugh the deſart lies,
With thorns, "IT ſnares beſet :
Vain *tis to think ourſelves ſecure
Till we to Canaan get.

What dang'rous foes: are fleſhly luſts ?
How furiouſly. they fight ?

Depreſs „ mind to duſt,
Te chains ie

Rouſe

n M0 CLXXII. 199

: | : IV.

Rouſe up my ſoul, good courage take,
8 And thou ſhalt tread them down:
Grace will the happy conqueſt ve, .

And grace * 85 92

Whoe'er would boaſt a 1 maine
M iuſt act the pilgri 990
In heaven his aſe” Walde be kad, -'
And there muſt be by heart.
V
O for a ſtrong and lively faith,
In endleſs joys to come;

Then would I joyful leave the works”
To go to heaven my home |

CLXXII. Common Metre.

The children of this world wiſer in their gene-
ration than the children of a Luke
xvi. 8. | _
Xt 9
Taxe! that He hildrvtt of this world,
Who heaven's high favours light,

Should be more wile in their concerns
* han children of _ light.

Bluſh, O ye ſons of Ben, that you”
Should be ſo far outdone.

By thoſe poor groveling fouls that Y

Their bliſs _—_— e ſun.

Mark how they keep their end in wers,
How well they 17 their p

They watch each feafon, toil and e

| And put forth all the man. Shall

2 H r MN CLXXI.
| IV.
Shall ſenſe and paſſion move fo rang .
To theſe inferior things ; 1
And faith defi &n'd to ſoar above
So feebly ftrereh . wings?

Lord, raiſe my ſoul to things "oo
The Joys at thy right hand?
Let faith o'er ſenſe the conqueſt make,
And all my ſoul 1 7 . wan
Then ſhall the world with her falſe Keen *
No more delude my eyes:
But wing d with zeal PII ſoar aloft
To gain the heavenly n

"ELXXME Long iet.
1 The true and falſe chriſtian. Rom. viii. i. 9.

I.
OAST not ye nohles of the **
The honours of your higher birth;
The titles ye ſo fondly claim 72
Are fleeting breath, = empty name.
IM
I chuſe my Savioftr's name to bear,
Chriſtian---a name divinely fair !
Can I but in this title ſhine, o
Tis more than if the world was mine.
| 79 wk 2
Why ſhould I want the pomp of ſtate ?
If Im the Chriſtian, I am great: =
Jeſus, my maſter, will me own,
And raiſe me to his heavenly throne.

But

H I M N CLXXIV. 201
N „1 IV. |
But ſhould I only have the name,
Such empty friends he will diſclaim: 55
Saviour and Lord, in vain I cry,
Whilſt in my life 1 him deny.

3 e
His ſacred image I muſt bear,
If in his bliſs I wiſh to ſhare :
Faith, hope, and zeal, will all be vain,
If Chriſt within me doth not reign.
4 VI.

Love; who pretends, yet diſobeys,
His maſter with a kiſs betrays :
Pretended friends, flaves to the fleſh,
Make e' en his wounds to bleed afreſh.

CLXXIV. Common Metre,

A living and a dead faith.

J. |
OT names, nor forms, nor modes of :
faith,
Can make the ſaint indeed:
Impure the life, *tis vain to boaſt
The ſoundneſs of our cre&d.
II.
Tho' pifrs prophetick we poſſeſt,
And — — works could do;
Yet ſhould our fleſhly luſts prevail,
Tis all but empty - ah
When at the great deciſive day,
The judge aſcends his throne;
Such worthleſs pleas he will reject,
Such friends will he diſown.
Cc The

202: HY MN CLXXV.
IV.
The faith that triumphs at the laſt,
Is no cold lifeleſs thing; __..
To an immortal prize ſhe ſoars,
And ſpreads her active wing.
Vo
Truth, peace, and love, and rightcouſncls,
Her charming. offspring „
Cleanſing. from luſts impure, ſhe forms
The foul divinely fair.
VI.
Whate'er the world calls good or great,
Faith nobly can deſpiſe:
On earth no ſolid bliſs the finds,
In heaven her treaſure lies.

CLXXV. Common Metre.”
Ged no reſpecter of perſons. © * xxxiv. 19.

*
\Ecz1v'D by empty ſhews of bliſs,
We bleſs the rich and great
F allacious rule! that meaſures men,
By title or eſſate. ? +
I.
With eye impartial heaven's high king,
Surveys each human tribe :
No earthly pomp his eyes can charm,
Nor wealth his favour bribe.
"" |
The nch and poor of equal clay,
His powerful hand did frame:
All ſouls are his, and him alike
Their common parent claim.

Riches

H I M N cLXXVI.

IV.

Riches arid honours come from him,

The ſceptre and the crown ; ©
He lifts a ſhepherd to a'throne,
And thruſts a tyrant down. *a
| > A. 3 N
Not all the wealth the Indies boaſt,
From pain and death can ſave:
Beggars and nobles, ſlaves and kings
Lie equal in the grave. |

VI.

The righteous poor God neer forgets, FR

He hears them when they cry :
His eye ſhall guard, his gracious hand
Their wants ſhall well ſupply.
| WP
Ye ſons of men of high degree,
JFPuour great ſuperior e own:
Praiſe him for all his gifts, and pay
Your homage at his throne.
VIII.
Truſt in the Lord, ye humble poor,
And baniſh every fear:
The God you ſerve will ne er forſake
The man of heart ſincere, ;

CLXXVI. Long Metre.

God's condeſcention ; or the living temple. 1ia.

Ivii. 15.

I.
HUS faith the high and holy one,

I fit upon my lofty throne ,
Inviſible to mortal eye, *

I dwell in mine eternity.
Ce 2

Yet

204 HT MN CLXXYI.
£ II.
Yet heayen my | preſence ſhall not. aun, *
On earth my dwelling ſhall be found:

The humble heart, — the contrite N
Is the abode of my Aren. N

T bid the tremblin A le..
To him my nobleſt; joys Ill give: uY
My preſence never ſhall depart. el
From men of Purgand humble 127 2

Prepare my heart moſt gracious God, EY
And there take up thy bleſt abode... ,
Form'd by thy own. 2 — wand. IE

I ſhall a living PE ſtand. 2

With holy zeal would 1 eee
Whatever thou canſt not approve: iS
A temple from pollution i FRE
Will pleaſe a God of Purity.

CLXXVII. Long Metre. ;
True honour. x Sem. * 30. n
Oxoux from blood let n claim,
Deſcent is but an empty name:

Mean is the man of higheſt birth,
Who has himſelf no — worth.

+ -
Tis virtue only can confer __
Thoſe honours which ſubſtantial are:
Virtue, who never ſcorns to dwell -
In cottage low, or meaner cell.

The

H:Y- M N CLXXVIII. 205
III.

on The humble foul how great is he Pn
Nobler than kings, his pedigree:::
Not born of fleſh, nor mortal blooi 1 7
An heir with Chriſt, eee
{ He is the great, the truly brave,
To no imperious Juſt a lav:
Who can with niceſt art controull!
The inward movements of his foul. vil 4
| 0 V.
A nobler empfre he has far
Than hero ever gain d by war
* needs no empty breath of fame
To ſound to future times his name.
VI.
What though his name's unknown to men.
Gris wrote by an immortal penn
In the fair book of life it ſnines, <
Nor time, nor death, ſhall raze thoſe Unes.

CLXXVIII. Short Metre.

The ſaint*s privileges, honour and duty; or
adopting grace. 1 John iii. 14.
HAT wond'rous love is this?
9 Ye ſaints the grace admire; |
Your father God calls you his ſons
What more can you deſire?
II.
C Each aint an heir of Gd.
With Chriſt a —— — * 5 |
Not human, or angelick ſongs. indo da ng
Can all the grace declare.
kf

206 H Y MN CLXXIX.
High as the priv'lege is
It doth not yet appear
What glorious forms the. ſons of God
Another day ſhall *
f 1
Dreſt in the robes of light,
Like ſuns the ſaints ſhall ſhine :
Compleat in glory they ſhall ſee
Their Saviour all-divine.
FORE” 4 ;
Yes, they ſhall ſee their king,
In all his dazling light :
Shall ſee---and find themſelves PILE d
By this moſt * ſight. |
NS.
Ye followers of the lamb,
This bleſſed hope ſecure :
Go on to purify within
As Chriſt your head is pure.
VII.
When Chriſt your life appears
In all his glittering rays,
With him in glory ye ſhall ſhine,
And ever ſing his praiſe.

_ .CEXXIX. Common Metre.
The ſincere Chriſtian checking bis fears. Pſal.
Xl. 11.
I.

Hence, O my ſoul, thy gloomy 2
And why the inward {mart ?
Can no phyſician then be found

Io heal a wounded heart?

*Tis

z

H IT M N + CLXXX, 207.

II.
*Tis guilt,” alaſs ! *tis' guilt I feel!

But why ſhould I deſp air?
A contrite ſoul ſhall pardon finds.
For mercy cries 2 2 set 105

The blood of Chriſt, O ſowreign balm!
Shall heal the wound within:

His grace ſhall help me whilſt I Roms):
To conquer ANTEY |

Why ſhould the ills of human life
O'erwhelm with grief my ſoul ?

Hope thou in God, his power and grace
Shall all thy fears _

Whilſt love and wiſdom guide his hand,
Why ſhould I dread the rod ? |

Bleſt ſtroke! that turns my wandering feet,
And brings them back to God, |

VI.

Let friends forſake, and foes inſult,
Let fleſh and heart both fail;

God is my ſtrength, and refuge ſtill,
Then why ſhould fears prevail?

CLXXX. Common Metre.

The in encouraged to truſt in God. Iſa. xl.
27, 28, Be

grit Hy |
E pious fouls, o'erwhelm'd with woes,
Why ſhould you ceaſeleſs grieve ?
Why fay your God has quite forgot,
Or fear he can't relieve? Have

208 HY M N CcILXXX.

II.
Have you not heard th Eternal God.
Who rules the world he made,
Supports untix'd chis mighty ang,
Nor feels his ſtren 115 decay d?

III. |
What wiſdom can his ſchemes defeat?
Who ſhall his thoughts explore?
Not Angels can the wiſdom graſp

Their loftieſt ſongs * |
4
His mighty arm ſupports the weak,
He gh the — ſoul:
His words the broken heart revive,
And make the N Whole.

How weak the powers that nature boaſts?
Hier blooming ſtrength how ſmall?
Her youths in fulleſt vigour faint,

Her ſtrong ones 2 and fall.
But thoſe whoſe humble hope relies
On God's almighty power
Shall from his kounty find relief
In the diſtreſſing hour.
VII.
Onward they go with growing ſtrength,
Like eagles w on high ;
They run, but ſhall not tire or faint,
For God, their God is nigh.

Strengthened

H YM N CLXXXE 209
CLXXXI. Common Metre.

| * 7 the "or that is in e vue.
or. Xi. 9.

Kw are the Wh that 1 ſpeaks
To chear the drooping aint; |

My grace ſufficient is for you,

„Though nature's. powers may Faint.

« My grace it's glories ſhall diſplay, |
G A make your griefs remove

« Your weakneſs ſhall the triumphs, tell
Of boundleſs Pager and love.“

WE

When mi ghty floods of trouble j Join
To make a ſea of grief;

Plead, O ye ſaints, his powerful! name,
And prayer ſhall 1 70 g relief. |

I

Let God but ſpeak, the raging Winds |
And waves are huſh'd to peace:

Speak, Lord, and at thy powerful word
The ſtorm vithin ſh - 2

What tho' my 1 1 are not remoy'd,

Yet why mould [ deſpair ?
Whilſt my kind Saviour's arms ſuppart

I can the burden 56

V

Jeſus, my Saviour, and my Lord,

*Tis good to truſt thy name:
Thy poWr, thy faithfulneſs and Jove

Win ever be the ſane.

c D d Weak

|
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|
q
1
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210 Hf T MN CLXXXIL

| VII.
Weak as I am, yet through thy grace
Il can all things perform; |
And ſmiling triumph in thy name,
| Amidſt the raging. ſtorm.

| CLXXRIM. Common Metre. -
Doing all in the name of Cbriſt. Col. iii. 17.
(Company ye ſaints, by ſacred love,
To Chriſt your homage pay: _.

How can he love who dares oppoſe

The Saviour's 1 ſway ?
What has not Jeſus done for us?

How free his bleſſings flow ?

To him ten thouſand thanks, to him
Our lives, our ſouls we owe. |
CT.

Jeſus, in thy bleſt name we'll-pray;
In this our tongues ſhall plead:
What favours can't thy name obtain
In times of greateſt need ? |
_—]..
Thy name ſhaft make the coward brave,
'The weak ſhall wonders do:
The trembling ſaint by thee upheld
Shall fight and conquer too.
1 |

To thee are our beſt paſſions due,
With all their pureſt flame :
Our words and deeds muſt all conſpire
To glorify thy name. 7,
| Os 80

HT MN CLXXXIIL 211
1
So ſhall our common father hear
The prayers our hearts indite:
And every ſong of praiſe ſhall riſe
As incenſe in his fight ©
CLXXXIII. Common Metre.

Not aſham'd of Chriſt. Mark viii. 38. Luke
| Ix. 26. Fr
Ws PTY
Syam'p of Chriſt ! my ſoul diſdains
The mean ungen'rous thought :
Shall I difown that friend whoſe blood
For man ſalvation bought?
1
With the glad news of love and peace
From heav'n to earth he came:
For us endur'd the painful croſs,
For us deſpis'd the ſhame,
3 III.
At his command we muſt take up
Our croſs without delay:
Our lives, and thouſand lives of our's
His love can ne'er repay.

| IV. 5
The faithful ſuff rer Jeſus views
With infinite delight : _

Their lives to him are dear, their deaths
Are precious in his ſight.
\

To bear his name, his croſs to bear,
Our higheſt honour is: 1
Who bravely ſuffers now for him
Shall reign with him in bliſs.
22 D d 2 But

—

212 HY MN CLXXXIV,
SH:
But ſhould we in the _ day.
From our profeſſion fly.
Jeſus the judge: before dbe world,
The traitor will den).
CLXXXIV. Short Metre.

Malling in Chriſt as ve have received bin.
| Col. 11. 6.

2
OME, ye th have receiv'd
The Saviour, and the Lord;
Come tread the ſteps mark'd out for you
In his moſt holy word.
| i
Behold the Spirit ſhews
The fafe and happy way:
Led by your wiſe unerring guide
| Your foot-ſteps ſhall not —

III.
Admit this gueſt within,

There fan his holy fire;
Quench not his flame, for hel! reſent,
And griev'd may ſoon retire,
IV.
The ſerpent anti the dove,
In ſweeteſt friendſhip join:
Thus ſhall your virtue be ſecur'd,
And your N ſhine. 27

In the ſoft paths of love , .
The Saviour's foot-ſteps trace:
Amazing love! that bore a croſs
To ſave our m race.

The

HT M N CEXXXV. 213
VI.

N The lamb of God purſue

Where'er he leads the way: 1-459 221
Like him to heaven's high will rene |
Like him your God obey. 0
VII.
How bleſt 3 is ſuch a life?
A life divineiy new:
Pleaſure ſhall ſweeten every toil,
And endleſs joys enſue.

CLXXXV. Common Metre.
Religious chearfulneſs. Prov. iii. 1 7.

.
ET ſuperſtition's gloomy "Ba
4 Re<ligion's form deface;
In her ſweet looks the ſons of truth
Behold each heavenly grace.
II.
Not in a ſable veſt ſhe's clad,
But light's her brilliant robe:
Her's *tis to ſcatter peace and joy
Throughout this earthly globe.
III.
My pious ſons, ſhe ſweetly \ cries,
Let all your hearts be glad:
Dry up your tears, and ſmile with me,
For why ſhould ſaints be fad?
IV.
The ſorrows which my rules preſcribe
Are but to heal the mind:
Godly my ſorrow, bleſt it's 4s
Eor all is peace behind.

Be

Be of good chear, the blood of Chriſt
God is your father, and your friend,

% H T M N CLXXX vi.

Has your free pardon ſeal'd:

Your refuge and your ſnhield.
, CO
Let troubles riſe, or death aſſail,
You have the beſt relief:
God will ſupport when nature fails,
And heaven cure every grief.
VII.
Joyous proceed, and thus commend
My ſafe and pleaſant ways:

Tour heaven begun on earth ſhall fit

For endleſs joy and praiſe.
CLXXXVI. Common Metre.

The ſure anchor; or hope entering within the
vetl, | Heb. vi. 19.
1
ESUS is gone within the veil
With his moſt precious blood:
All power in heaven he claims, and he
Will make each promiſe good.
| II.
Behold at God's right-hand he fits,
(For faith can ſee him there)
High as his honours are he makes
The humbleſt ſaint his care.
5 III.
Ye holy ſouls, what ſnhould forbid
Your hopes to enter too:
The bleſt fore- runner will prepare
A place of reſt for you.

Let

H IT M N. CEXXXVII. 225
IV.
Let threat ning clouds o ercaſt the ies,
And turn your day to night:
Why ſhould ye fear whilſt faith darts down
A "y of heavenly _ |

Tho! toſt upon a troubled ſea.
You have an anchor ſure:
Hope firmly fix d within the veil
Shall well the ſoul ſecure.
VI.
Truſt your great pilot's matchleſs in
His orders well perform; 75
He will preſerve, and you ſhall ſoon ©
Ride out the dang'rous ſtorm.
| II. |
Tempeſts and ſtorms can only rage
Beneath theſe lower ſkies; -
All peaceful is within the vel], -
And there your treaſure lies. | |

CLXXXVII. Common Metre: = |
The ſtedfaſt Chriſtian's ſecurity. Rom. viii. 35. |
I.
HE lives, the great Redeemer lives,
Ye ſaints his name adore; |
For you he died, for you he roſe
And lives for ever more.
II.
Who * the love of God ſhall force
The men of upright heart?

Who from their Saviour's kind embrace
His faithful friends ſhall part? *

#16 H 1 M N cLXxx VII

.m.
Shall tribulation, or diſtreſs,
Or perſecutions rodꝰ OY (17159 17
Shall perits, famine, or the fr
Divide the ſaint from God.“.
IV.
No in all theſe the heroick ſaint”
Shall more than conqueror prove:
Immortal triumphs he ſhall fing,
Gain'd through his "meh love.

Let earth, let all the powers of bell
In ſtrongeſt league combine:
Who can the righteous hurt, ſecurd
By love, by „ WL 3
J. 4 N.
Nor height, nor depth, nor life, nor death,
Nor any foe beſide; |
Shall — the love of God in Chr
The ſtedfaſt ſaint divide. |

CLXXXVIIL. Common Metre.

T, be chriſtian warrior animated and crowned.
| Eph. VI. 13.—19. .
I.
EH OLD the chriſtian warrior march
Againſt his mighty foes ;
By his great captain led he nights,
And e Saanen WF —
K.
But firſt he puts his armour on,
By heaven all- gracious ſent ;
Armour, which makes a feeble worm
Almoſt * | |

With

H T MN CLXXXVIIL 217
HT. =

With truth unfeign'd, unſpotted pure
He ever girds his loins;

No girdle deck'd with gems and gold
Wich ſuch a luſtre ſhines.

W

His heart with righteouſneſs he guards,
What breaſt-plate like to this?

A helmet too his head defends,
The hope of heavenly bliſs.

Like the fam d ſons of might he girds
His ſword upon his thigh;
Sword of the ſpirit, word divine,
What force can this defy ?
In vain the prince of darkneſs ſtrives
To give a mortal wound;
Quench'd by the ſhield of faith his darts
Fall harmleſs to the ground. |
VII.
Gird on my ſoul thy armour too,
And for the fight prepare:
Succours from heaven ſhall fwift deſcend,
Call'd down by fervent prayer.
| VIII.
Stand faſt in every evil day,
Stand, and your foes defy:
Victorious faith ſhall gain the field,
And all your foes ſhall fly.
Is
Fear not, your leader has ſubdued
The powers of death and hell.
Dying, he conquer'd all his foes,
And triumph'd when he fell.

E e See

218 H Y M N /CLXXXIX.
END „
See where he holds th* immortal palm, |
Whoſe leaves ſhall ne er decay;
Fight on, and this hall grace thy brow,

CLXXXIX. Common Metre.

7 he beſt legag, ar . to be found in Gin
Juoohn We 27+ N

* 3 I. 14 | |
3 tis a Wee of heavenly ad,
This Being fing Jeſus arg his friends,
And bids me make it mine.
| .
With dreams of peace, alas | how oft
The world hath ſooth'd my heart ? 3
Falſe flattering world, tis not in thee
Such treaſure to impart.
III.
That peace which heals all inward wounds,
My ſaviour muſt beſtow : |
This eee ſhall all my griefs remove,
And make * Joys O'erflow.
IV.
Bleſt Jeſus may this peace of thine
My ſoul for ever ſway ;
Then all that earth, and hell can do -
Shall little me diſmay.
V.
Thee would 1 follow day by day,
My guide, my conquering king;
Share in thy victories o'er the world,
And all thy * ſing.

Rooted

wor;
— . F

0

HI M N CXC. 219

VI.
Rooted i in thee by faith and nk
My ſoul to heaven ſhall riſe;
And ſmile to ſee the ſtorms that rage
Beneath theſe 1 2 1
So firmly fix d on their own 22
The mighty rocks remain;
In vain che noiſy billows daſh,
And ſpend their rage in vain.

CXC. . FO

The ang of the ſaints. Heb. vi. 12.

| I.

RE O my ſoul, purſue the my
By antient heroes trod;

Ambitious view thoſe holy men
Who liv'd and W with God.

Tho? dead they ſpeak in reaſon's ear,
And in example live:

Their faith and hope, and mighty deeds
Still freſh inſtruction give.

„„

Say, by whoſe ſtrength their feeble fleſh,
Such various tolls ſuſtaind ;

Say, by what means theſe heirs of grace,
Immortal triump .

T was thro? the lamb's moſt precious blood,
They conquer'd every fo;

And to his power and matchleſs grace
Their crowns and honours owe.

Ee 2 Warm'd

8 a v.
Warm'd 1 the * that brd a N |
We ſhall be heroes too:
Inſpir'd by equal faith and zeal,
What wonders ſhall we don:
*
The world and fleſn ſhall be deny d,
Nor ſhall we dread the croſs; -
| Pleas'd that our future gains Fon
By every preſent loſs.
VII,
Lord, may I ever keep in view
The patrerns thou haſt given;
And ne'er forſake the bleſſed path,
Which led them ſafe to heaven,

CXCI. Long Metre.

The memory of the juſt is bleſſed, or the ali
of faith. Heb. xi. 33, 34.

1
LEST is the mem ry of the juſt,

And ſweet their ſlumbers in the duſt,
Tho! loſt, long loſt to mortal eye

Their fame ſubſtantial ne'er ſhall die;

II. |
In life's fair book the patriarch's live,
Prophets and ſaints inſtruction give
Tho? dead, they ſpeak the truth d: vine,
And in cxample brightly ſhine.

| __ BW

Tell the exploits their faith has done,
The ſufferings borne, the victories won;
The promiſes by faith obtain'd,
And kingdoms to its empire gain d.

Twas

HT M N cxch. on
W. |
Tas faith faſt closd the lion's) jar,
And harmleſs made his dreadful pa w“;
Quench'd fierceſt flames, pros te 4 x fword,
And to new life the dead reftor'd. -
V.
My ſoul, theſe antient worthies view, |
Their faith, their love, their zeal purſue :
Warm'd by each word, and glorious deed,
In the ſame bleſſed road proceed.
VI. |
Than conquerors more theſe heroes were,
And joyous now rich triumphs ſhare:
Aſpire my ſoul to their renown,
And thou ſhalt wear th' unfading crown.
CXCII. Common Metre.
Abel's faith and ſacrifice. Heb. xi. 4.
| fa. outward forms and coſtly gifts
No true devotion les;
The holy hand alone can bring
A pleaſing ſacrifice.
II.
See the two brothers bring their gifts,
And mark their altars well;
Abel in faith each victim kills,
And Abels gifts excell.
III. 2
The envious Cain with rage beholds
* The bright approving ſigns ;
The grateful odours mount the ſkies, |
And Cain in vain repines. by
| What

Tis probable fire came from heaven and conſumed the
ſacrifice.

222 H T M N CXCIIL

IV.
What tho a cruel brother's hands,
Bleſt ſaint ! thou couldſt not fly;
. Tho' ſhort thy life, yet 8 thy fame,
Thy faith ſhall * die.

Thy faith ſtill ſpeaks, attend my ſoul,
And hear it's charming voice;

Mark out the ſteps which Abel trod,
And make his God thy choice.

VI.

Shake off thy floth, with ſpeed ariſe,
Purſue the unſeen good :

Truſt to a Saviour's ſacrifice,
More rich than Abel's blood.

CXCIII. Common Metre. |
Enoch's faith and tranſlation. Heb. xi. 5.
I.

HE wond'rous power of faith divine,
In pious Enoch fee ;
By a new way he gains the ſhores
Of I:
II. -
Whilſt Adam's other ſons reſign,
With pain their feeble breath,
He enters through the gates of bliſs,
Nor paſſes thoſe of 1
III.
Bleſt ſaint! how great was thy! reward,
Approv'd on earth below;
To heaven receiv'd the neareſt way,
Where ſras of Joy o'erflow.
225 | Learn

HT MN CXCIXV.
IV. |
Lands O my foul, to walk by faith ©
In paths which Enoch — z
His, be thy ſtudy, and delight,
To pleaſe to walk * God.

Then let death ſeize this mortal frame,
I ſhall not fear its ſting :

To know myſelf approv'd will cauſe

My dying lips to ling. 152

CXCIV. Common Metre.
Noab's faith andobedience rewarded. Heb. xi. 7.

I.
Hex the whole earth became corrupt.
And violence bore ſway;
He muſt be nobly bold who dard
His virtues to .
I
Such Noah was, he ſingly ſtands
To plead the cauſe of God :
The righteous preacher tells the world
Of an approaching flood.
I.
Whilſt ſunk in luſt, a ſenſual world
Refuſe his voice to hear;
In faith the preacher builds the ark,
Aw'd by an holy fear.
IV.
Warn'd by his God, with pious haſte
He gathers all his ſtore : |
At God's command he enters in,

And God makes fait the. door.

Now

224 H T M N Cxcv.
V.
Now tis the blackning clouds o e 4
Pour down the load they bore :
»Tis now the fountains of the deep
Burſt forth with hideous roar.
M.
In vain poor mortals climb the hills,
And mountains ſtill more ſteep;
Each living tribe the ſwelling waves
| To ſwift deſtruction ſweep.
| VII.
But ſee on mounting waves high rais'd
The ark majeſtic rides: |
The patriarch's faith ſecures its charge,
And God the veſſel guides.
6 VIII.
Thus i in God's ſight this righteous man
Obtain'd the grace he ſought ; ;
And by his faith his pum'rous ſons
Are {till this leſſon taught:
8
Fear God, his awful threats believe,
Repent, in time be wiſe;
Then like the patriarch you'll be ſafe,
When fears tlie world ſurprize.

CXCx. Common Metre.

A Faith and obedience. * xi. 8, 9,
| Ie 17, 18; 8 =
& =

LEST i is the man whoſe humble faich
In God unſhaken ſtands : +

e loves to know his maker's will,
And waits for his commands,
Thus

H' TMN CXCV. 223
II.
Thus Abriam heard the voice 1 1
And haſten'd to obey: .
At once he leaves his native e ſoll
Impatient of delay.
III.
The promis'd land to him een. |
The dangers all untried; :_
Yet Abram fearleſs marches on
With providence his guide.
*- "nt
Let wither'd age the hope forbid, _
To ſee the —. heir;
His ſteady faith not once admits
The ſhadow of 1

Aſſur d a God of A... mould ne'er
From his own word depart ;
His aged arms, his Iſaac claſp
Whilſt joy o'erflows his heart.
| VI. |
But muſt the faint with his own hands,
His deareſt Iſaac ſlay ?
Twas but for God to ſpeak the word,
And Abra'm will obey, ®
VII.

Not nature, with her tend'reſt pleas,
His ſteady hand reſtrain ©
Faith makes him deaf to nature's voice,

And faith the vicouy gains. |
0 3 7
But hom ſhould God his promiſe keep.
And where the num'rous ſeed?
What room for hope if this dear ſon
M.iuſt on the altar bleed?
F f The

226 H T MN "Cxtevi.
IX.
The mighty queſtion faith reſolves,
By trueſt reas'nings1ed: ,
Let Iſaac die, he truſts his God
Will raiſe him from the dead.
X.
The promiſe with the ſtrange command,
Thus Abram reconciPd : |
The father's faith God now approves,
And ſpares the * child.
Lord may our faith thoſe ſteps purſue
Which faithful Abr' am trod;
Thus ſhall we be great Abr'am's ſons,
And nam'd the friends of God.

CXCVI. Common Metre:
Moſes's Choice, or the triumphs of faith. Heb,

Xi. 24, 2 5.
ee
HEN in the clearer light of faith,
We look on things below;
Riches and honours, crowns and courts,
Are all but empty ſhow.
e
This Moſes knew, and nobly ſcorn'd
The glittering baits of ſin:
Not Pharaoh's crown could gain his heart,
For faith prevail'd within.
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O noble faith! that treads on crowns,
And glories in a croſs : 3
That finds and boaſts her higheſt gains,
Where others mourn a loſs.

Be

HA. MN CXCV H. 227
IV.
Be gone, ye falſe delights, ſhe cries,
Ye ſmile to wound more deep:
My peace, 2 hopes, my waer my God
I cannot ſell ſo _ „bie

Welcome the croſs — Saviour bore,
Let men condemn my choice:

It is enough, my God approves,
And bids my heart rejoice.

CXCVII. Common Metre.

cy moderation; or the ſaint indeed. Phil. |
iv. 5.
BE

APPY the man . cautious ſteps

Still keep the golden mean:
Whoſe life, by wiſdom's rules well form'd,

Declares a conſcience clean.

II.
Not of himſelf he highly thinks,

Nor acts the boaſter's part: |
His modeſt tongue the language ſpeaks |
Of his ſtill humbler heart. |

II.

Not in baſe ſcandal's arts hè deals
For truth dwells in his breaſt:

With grief he ſees his neighbour's faults,

And thinks, and hopes the beſt.

IV.
What bleſſings bounteous heaven beſtows

He takes with thankful heart:
With temp'rance, he both eats and drinks,

And gives the poor a part.
oP Ff 2 To

To ſect or party his lar

ws N Y M X cxcvml.

a V.

ge ſoul
Diſdains to be confin d:.

The good he loves of every name,

And prays for all *

Pure is his zeal, the offspring fair

Of truth and heavenly love:
The bigot's rage can never dwell
Where reſts the peaceful dove.
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His big is to keep his heart,

Each paſſion to controul;
N ambitious well to rule
The empire of his ſoul.
VIII.

Not on the world his heart is ſet,

His treaſure is above:

Nothing beneath the ſowreign good

Can claim his higheſt love.

CXCVIII. Common Metre. |
Contentment a divine art. Phil. iv. 11, 1 Tim.
* Vi. 6. N

2:
OnTENTMENT—" tis that art divine

Which makes us rich and great:

Great, without pow'rs imperial ſway,
And rich without —
I
Sweet balm of life, cordial refin'd,
Fair plant of heavenly ſoil:
Soft ſoother of our anxious cares,
Bleſt ſweet' ner of ourtoil. 5
i 3 ut

HY M * CXCIX. 229

But where, 0 ** . this ae 77

With nobles, or with kings?
Swift flies the heavenly form from thrones;

And crowns thoſe meaner things.

IV. 15

Where truth and virtue fix their ſeat / OF

In cottage mean, or cell; 7
There this kind Angel ſhews his face,

And there delights to dwell.

V.

Content - ingredient prime and feet.

In heaven's .. bliſs!
*Tis thine to make a leſſer heavin

In ſuch a world as this. |
VI.
Lord, may I learn this bleſſed art.

And now my heaven beginn .
Or rich, or poor I muſt be bleft 5

Who have my heaven within.

CXCIX. Common Metre.

Going on unto perfection; or progreſs in religion
the Chriſtian 5 duty. Heb. vi. 1.

I.
WAKE, my ſoul, caff oF hy goth,
Drop each incumb'ring load :
Exert thy ſtrength, and all thy powers
To run the heavenly road.
Arg!
perfection be thy aim, to this
Thy willing foot-ſteps bend;
To this let all thy words and rhoughts,
And every action tend.

Won

230 H Y XN CG.
III.
Won by the charms of heavenly truth
In wiſdom daily grow: _ |
Learn more of God, his ways, his .
And learn thyſelf to know. 255
.
To that celeſtial faith aſpire
Which purifies the heart:
Brings future objects near our view,
And bids the world depart.
.
Let love her full poſſeſſion take,
Unwearied feed the flame
This pureſt fire ſhall cleanſe the foul,
enn
By every bright example led,
Purſue the heavenly way:
Sweet pleaſure ſhall the road beguile,
And heaven the toil repay.

CC. Common Metre.
MMuman life ſurvey d.
ELL---tis a dull and tedious round
| Which we e poor mortals tread ;
To eat and drink, to toil and ſleep,
To riſe and go ta-bed.
ns Bo"
To be till We by joys delay'd,
Or by fruition cloy d;
To be decein'd, and find the chens,
And ſtill to be decoy d. ie

See Norris's miſcellanies, page 34.

H T M N (el, 237
III. 55
To ſweat and pant quite out of breath
Spent in the fruitleſs chace;
Yet ſtill from day to day run on,
And ever loſe the race.
IV.
To taſte the meaner joys we ſought,
But find no true content; +.
And hen theſe tranſient joys depart
Their abſence to lament. -
V.
Can this be life, which to enjoy
We wiſh for longer breath ?
Shall we ſuch life a bleſſing call,
And dread the of death ?
I.
Life, ſure in wiſdom's facred ſtyle,
Is a diviner thing; -
It's ſource is not from earth, but flows
From a celeſtial ſpring.
| VII.
Ta love and fear thy name, my God,
And do thy holy will;
This life of angels and of ſaints
Shall my beſt hopes fulfills

CCI. Common Metre.
No reſt on earth, Micah ii. 10.
HAT reſt on earth? O empty dream}
Diſdain my ſoul the ſound : |
How can the fruits of Eden gro-
Where fin has curs'd the ground?
* | Now

}

232 HY M N CCIL

II.
Now anxious cares our breaſts Poſſeſs,
And now preſaging fears: |
Man labours, toils, and fweats for bread, |
| And eats that * in tears.

III.
Diſeaſes now, a ghaſtly band,
Our feeble fleſh invade;

For briſk attack prepar'd, or form'd

To lurk in ambuſcade.
IV.

Sometimes an inward wound we feel,

Th' invenom'd darts of ſin;
Guilt wracks the ſoul, no pains like thoſe
That riſe from wounds within.
V.
Mix'd are the joys of human life,
Each pleaſure has it's. pain;

Soon paſs our brighter hours 16144

And grief aſſails _

Thus through a wat*ry + the ſun
Shines forth with feeble ray;
But ſoon a darker cloud conceals -
THY illuſtriouꝰ Lord of Day. .
CCII. Common Metre.

The converſation of Chriſtians an heavenly one.
Phil. i. 20.

I. |
Orſake, my ſoul, this meaner earth,
And rife to things above:
There's nought below the circling f ſun
Can claim thy higheſt love.

How

HYMN cen 233
II.
How: den ye ſaints, your dondours are?
How rich the priylege given?
A child of God, an heir with Chriſt;
A citizen of heaven. &.q
RE | ! © |
What glorious objects you invite,
Unſeen by mortal eye?
Faith can diſcern where ſenſe is blind;
And bring theſe 20 nigh.
I
IR Spread all thy wings, my ſoul, and mount
- To God ape, bleſt: :
His nearer beams ſhall thee transform,
And leave the God impreſt.
V.
Behold the bleſſed Jeſus \ „
What forms of love he wears?
Hark! for he pleads before the throne;
And offers up our Rer. |

See where the holy y angels ſtand
Around the olitehting throne :
tudy their purer language well,
And make their 1 thme own.
| IL
But Lord, how weak, how frail am I ?
How languid is my love?
1 need thy quick' ning grace to raiſe
My ſoul to things above.

VIII. | h 7
By thee inſpir d my longing ſoul
Shall upwards take her Ar ede - >
There converſe with the things unſeen
Till faith is turn'd to fight 5
"MF 8 A wounded

A

MED M N. ecu
on | Common Mer

Ty 241 n

ET i nature 18 00 Wi
And fighing tell In ſmart; |

Yet- ſmall her N Ne rd s NN
Who feels We ear. N N.

O who can tell how og A
A wounded ſpirit is?

| Not all that more fleſh can bear |
Can ever cant tha.

eue ſupports the brave in wor, 5.

"Still leſſening every q
ing ſaints er God, 4

III. . "A * wh Bs 5 5 A ;

. % 1 1 .
. * YN 1 - -” * 2 << 6

And find' re relief. . A
IW.

But who that feels the wounds of n

-

Can ſlight th invenom'd dart ? *

Who can ſupport the qui ring ſhaft | 6 7

That rends Ut 2 5

The hero Who EN of od
Did thouſand deaths
By Finds aſſauſted on his b

Finds all his cours

% .

e das g frail fleſh ein fel,
| Lord, I would rather bear:
This overwhelm'd with conſcious s .

Op 5 ob. Rom ex be,
purge my my-inward a cry
Thou wilt . let men repent,

For pard hig grace abounds. |
Cen" Common Merre. N
The pleaſure f + a + ood tonſeiente.. 2 Cor. i. i.1 2.

| r
r ” L * hes n

H' chow happy is the . 1

Who his conſeience Wen fy A
Who feels no ſecret ſtings of ns Ys
_ ſmarting laſh of fear, *
| | fe + BY f NEIL ti Aer * 4
| His words, fair image of N 4 mind
His inmoſt heart expreſs : 7) 77

Truth gives them their ſubſtantial weight,
Simplicity their dreſs. ,

III. 1 + LET EP
He nobly ſcorns the wicked art:
Of flattery and deceit: - IN . = S THe © 7
No ſecret bribe can tempt-his heart
To m CRE Ge” |
IV. "_
No laws he ne make bim jun
His Savio mg eh 18 right: N
is Saviou go 8
. * *

For ever in

236 HY M N CCcy,
V.

His God he ſets before his face, &
And ſerves with fear and love:
3 He ſeeks no empty praiſe of men.
Content if God . Ig,

* f

Let ſtorms and tempeſts rage without,

He has a calm within: |

The blood of Chriſt his Lord he hopes 41-5
| Has cleans'd away his fin. * |

| .

Should ſcandal dart her forked tongue,
And all her poiſon vent;

Malice can't rob him of the bliſs

1 know he's innocent.

c | VIII.

May conſcience, Lord, in my laſt hours
Give an approving voice:
P11 be content to leave the world,

And dying will rejoice.

CCV. enen Metre.
Bleſſed are the Poor in ſpirit. Mat. v. 3.
3

ET a gay thoughtleſs world deſpi
L The men of heart contrite; 3 .

Jeſus the poor in ſpirit owns, -
And views them with delight.
3
His ſacred Ups pronounce them bleſt,
His arms the men embrace:
* image of his own meek heart,
His eyes with pleaſure trace.

God

H T M N CCVL 237
1 |
God will regard their humble cries,
Their groans he never ſlights;
A broken heart's the ſacrifice
In which his ſoul *
1
Amidſt perplexing mazes here
Poor 5 go aſtray;
His beams of heavenly light ſhall guide,
And chear them a way. |

The humble heart he will revive,
And this his temple make:
Here will he dwell, nor ever, will
The hallow'd place forſake.
But who ſhall tell the greater bliſs,
For them reſerv'd in ſtore ?
The heavenly kingdom they ſhall ſhare,

And reign for eyermore.

CCVI. Common Metre.
be God of peace.
N
HE God of peace my ſoul admire
The ſweet delightful name;
The words which b . angels ſing
Let mortal tongues proclaim.
II.
Unaſk'd he ſought the rebel man,
Who fled his maker's face :
Pity affwag'd his wrath, and turn'd
The vengeance into grace,

His

28 HYMN *
n
His only ſon, the promis d ſeed,
For us was freely given: |
To earth he came, Sx bled and dy'd, -
To —_ our peace with heaven.
5 2 IV. ; a
8 ace che offer'd peace, |
Repent and ye ſhall lives
He that ſo 8 gave his ſon,
Will your full ** *

The contrite heart . will revive,
And calm the troubled foul :

One gracious word of his ſhall make
The wounded ſpirit whole.

x

Thou God of peace! diſpel my fears,
And ſooth my griefs to reſt:

Not the whole world, or thouſand worlds,
Can make me ns, bleſt. |

Let ſtorms and tempeſts rage without,
I ſhall have peace within:

Whilſt my ow. heart its witneſs bears, »
I hate the thought of fin.

CCVH. Common Metre,
No condemnation to them that are in Chriſt Jeſus
who walk not after the fleſh, but aſs the
po Hom: vii. 1, 2. by

I.
ET not the humble faint deſpair,
Who walks in pious ways;
W bo ſhuns the courſe the fleſh approves,
And with delight obeys. The

H * M N cm. 239
II. |
The living 3 within
Controuls each ſenſual luſt 254
His nobler mind with ſcorn diſdains
To ahaha nn EI 3-1 I;
©. |
Juſtice and truth, with love combin'd;
His words and actions * ard 1
A foe to every brutal luſt,
To envy, wrath, arid: pride. - |
IV.
He guards his thoughts with wirchful e ae,
Aw'd by an holy fear I. n
His buſinefs and delight it is FM
To keep his E cleat. E
4
His faith in Chriſt transforms: his ful,
And purifies within:
The law of life has made him five
From that of death and fin.
VE
No condemnation need he fear,
For God doth him approve ; -
Who from the men of heart ſincere, 1
His love will ne'er W nen I

Ss «&- ,

CCVIII.. Long Wes.
The n of the pardon d Ju Pl. xxxii. 1.

I.
Paper, 0 ſweet reviving word fe TN
What ſound can greater joys afford ?
Ye contrite ſouls, your tears forbear, * £

For know chat mercy loves to ſpare. N
Why

My pard ning grace”!

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= HY M N ccix:

ö 5
Why ſhould your hearts give 9 5 fear;
; ( ” , *

When Jeſus cries be of good ch

My blood ſhalF purge your guilt away;
id power diſplay.
Think; O my foul, how bleſt ü he;
Whom God fo gives, and Chriſt makes free:
Whoſe pleaſing hope of pardon'd ſin,
Creates a heavenly'calm within:
1
Let mighty hoſts the ſaint ſurround,
Stedfaſt in faith he keeps his ground:

Hell's utmoſt rage he may deride,
Who has th * on his ſide.

5 . |
Let ſpiteful foes his faults enlarge;

And former crimes lay to his charge;

It is enough. if God acquits, _

And all his former ſins forgets.

5 _ VL

Who ſhall condemn the pious race?

Safely they truſt the Saviour's grace:

His death, his life ſhall well ſecure

The men whoſethearts and lives are pure.
CCI. Long Metre,

_ Theexcellency of Charity. 1 Cor. xiii.
'Exx all the tongues of men mine own,
And Angels nobler tongues well

Yet did not love within me dwell, |
Cymbals of braſs might ſound as * |
_— | What

HY M N COX 2.
I]. 1
What though I ſaw with cleareſt view
Each prophecy and myſtery too : |
Tho? my ſtrong faith could mountains move,
Still I am nothing without love.
II.
Should I exhauſt my worldly ſtore,
To cloath and feed the needy poor;
Should J amidſt the flames expire,
And thus a martyr's fame acquire :
IV. |
Yet would theſe mighty things be yain
If love within did not conſtrain :
A love whoſe riſe is not from earth,
But of an high, 9 birth.

From God it comes, the ſource of love,

And mounts again to him above:
From his example learns to ſoar,
And lives when faith, when hope's no more.

8 Long Metre.

The properties of charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, &.
I.
For a 'rongue like hoſt above

To ſing WR of ſacred love !
To make h_ world her charms admire,

And warm their breaſts with heavenly fire.
II.

She ſuffers long, to wrath is ſlow,

And patient bears th' injurious blow:

Well-pleas'd her bleſſings ſhe beſtows,

For greater joy ſhe hardly knows.

K She

242 1 Y M N cx.
* I. "of
She envies not the rich and great,
The pomp and power of high eſtate ;
Tho' mean and humble is her ſear,
Contentment makes I little ſweet.
V

She ne'er is ſwell'd with empty pride,
But modeſt ſtrives her charms to hide:

Gives up her humour, let and eaſe,
To profit others or * <8

Her ſpeech ſo graceful is, and mien,
Nothing indecent can be ſeen :
She neither evil doth devize,
Or cares the evil to ©
In others crimes ſhe can't delight,
But hates that cruel helliſh ſpite : |
Griev'd to obſerve her nei - = frail,
She hides the fault r her veil.
II.
To truth ſne always lends an ear,
And joyful ſmiles the truth to hear:
The candid plea ſhe will ſuggeſt,
Will think, „ hope the beſt.
|
Let num'rous obſtacles op
Onward in her fair courſe
She labours ſtill tho' oft he goes
To * evil with the ——
NX.
When tongues and prophecies ſhall fail,
And knowledge be of no avail z |
When faith and hope to ſight reſign, T
Immortal love ſhall brighteſt ſhine, Fol

H Y M N- CCXL 243
CCXI. Common Metre. |
Falſe and true Zeal,

EAL, tis a ſweet and charming name,
Inſpir d by truth and love:
*Tis the pure flame that angels feel,
In the bleſt worlds above.
II,
But zeal that rages in the dark,
Is no angelick flame:
Falſe zeal a cruel fury is
From hell the monſter came.
III.
Her eyes dart terror, and her hands
Are dy'd with human
Drunk with the blood of flat Naben 'd ſaints,
She thirſts, and gapes for more,
.
Not ſuch my Saviour was thy zeal,
No blood thy hands did ſpill:
*T was thy delight to bleſs mankind,
And do thy father's will.
3
Bleſt Jeſus! Prince of peace, inſpire
My ſoul with love divine:
So ſhall my breaſt for ever glow,
With ſuch a zeal as thine.

CCXII. Common Metre. |
The fiery diſciples rebuked. Luke ix. 54, &c.

Trance ! O my Saviour, that blind zeal,
Should e'er thy friends inſpire :
That breaſts where love ſhould ever flame,
Should burn with fuch a fire.
H h 2 We

244 HYMN Cexn.

H.
We ſee thy ſons of thunder _
With lightning's dreadful power;
Samaria's rude and churliſn ſons,
REF to devour.” _—_
vos *
8 Speak Lord, and inſtant we'll ind, |
« From heaven the vengeful flame;
Elijah thus conſum'd his foes,
And we would * the ſame. 15
Well, meekeſt Jeſus! might'ſt thou turn,
And check this fiery zeal:
Whilſt ſweeteſt accents from thy lips
Thy love to men rereal.

„ Ye zealots to yourſelves moſt blind,

“ Produce what pleas ye will; 1
« Ye know not what this ſpirit is,

T That leads you thus to kill,

+. Wai

6 18 that I came not here below,

<« To kill and to deſtroy ;
* To fave men's lives was my deſign,

« And this ty __ employ.

1 »

& Go learn of me, be meek and mild,

This wiſdom's from above:

„Know that the law, and goſpel too,

< Are both fulfl'd by love.” |
| Refgnation

1 * M N cexnl. 245.
C⸗œxIII. Long Metre,

Reſignation under affliiive providences. Luke
" ADE 4246

4

n be gone, ye all are vain; =
Ye ſerve hut to increaſe my pain: ©4
Why ſhould 1 faint beneath the rod, 7
When chaſten'd by 5 inn God? E
| %
*

I'll truſt my great phyſician s ſkill,
What he preſcribes can ne'er be ill :
If heavier griefs I ſhould endure
He only wounds to 1 a cure.

Tho' wounded in a tender part,

That pain is good which heals the heart:
Purg'd from my ſins, I ſhall approve,

My heavenly father r 2 aſtning love.
Tho” clouds, my God, thy throne ſurround,
Still good and wile thou wi be found :
Should all 1 prize on earth be gone, -

I till will fay thy 1. be 45 |

Whatcer I call'd my 5 wWzs thine, =
Tis but thy own which I reſign: | 4
Tis fit to give my all to thee, | | "=
Who gav'l thy * * for me.

He left che purer 3 3
Emptied of all but of his love; © *
In mortal form refign'd his breath,
To ſave my ſoul from endleſs death.

See Norris's miſcellanies, p. 87. At 7

„„ 4 © an” 4
—_—* Ln)

Who know that all ſhall work for Good ?

246 1 Y M N cx.
CCNXIV. Long Metre.

All * work 2 Joer good to them that
_—_ vill. 28. |

Tor FRO chen IG fate's als wall,
Orfrom the duſt our troubles come ;

No fickle chance preſides o'er grief,

To cauſe the pain, 0 _ relief.

Look up, and ſee ye ſorrowing ſaints,

The cauſe and cure of your complaints;

Know *tis your heavenly father's will,

Bid every W then be till.

EL»: 3.75
He ſees we need the painful yoke,
Yet love directs his = teſt ſtroke :
He takes no pleaſure in our ſmart,
But wounds to heal, and chear the heart.

IV.

Bleſt wine thoſe that cleanſe from ſin,
And make the ſoul all pure within :

Mean the fond mind from earthly toys,

To ſeek and taſte celeſtial joys.
V. |
So artiſts melt the recious oar, FE

And from the droſs the metal pour
The fire has but the maſs refin'd,

And left the worthleſs droſs behind.

VI.
Ye nts that love and ſerve the Lord,
In all your s fly to his word:
Why ſhould ye faint beneath his rod,

The

H I MN ccxv. 249:

CCXV. Common Metre. RR
The benefit of affiiftions. Pſ. cxix. 71.
8
WEET fruits afflictions bring like-thoſe
That grew on Aaron's 47. ». vo
To him that bears them with a mind r
Which ſpeaks a child of God. |
IL Ef A
He ſees his heavenly father's hand,
And lifts his eyes above:
Humbly he bows beneath the rod
| Whole every ſtroke is love.
* 1
Faith by the trial is improv'd,
Like gold is more refin'd: ;
Hope looks within the veil, and leaves
All mortal things behind. 15
= 41.2 0
The peaceful fruits of righteouſneſs
Compenſate all his pain:
. His loſſes whilſt they make him poor
| Increaſe his better gain.
y
When ſorrows like a ſtorm gflail
He bends and bears the blaſt:
Stronger by weakneſs he becomes,
And ſhaken: ſtands more faſt.
* VI. F |
So the weak reed by yielding ſtands
Secure from every harm:
Whilſt the tall cedar which reſiſts
Falls by the mighty ſtorm.

The

8: HY M N ccxvt.
| CCXVI. Common Metre.
The frailty of 1 e; or the divine art of number-
N our days. Pfal. xc. 12.
Wo .
THAT can we find beitet the ſun
More frail than mortal man?
The meafure of kis days how 138055 pr”
A hand's-breadth 1 a ſpan? .
In youthful life he ſprings like flowers,
The pride of blooming May;
But blaſted ſoon reclines the head,
And all his _— myth
| 1 1
Ho ſwift before the ſun's bright beams
The morning vapour flies ?
Such is his life, he juſt appears,

Then groans and W and dies.

Then why ſhould ſuch frail mortals boaſt
Of years, and years to come ?

In folly ſpend their fleeting days,
Unmindful of the _—_”

Why ſhould the foul, th' immortal p part,
Be thought beneath our care ?

The ſoul, whoſe loſs a thouſand worlds
Tho' given, cou 85 not repair.

I.

Teach us, good Lord, by wildom s rules
To number well each day:

Our wiſdom this, this our ſupport
When fleſh and heart decay.

A me-

*
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Muſt it to new and unknown worlds
T I 1

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cc. Cannes Mee.
4 me on death. |

5
UIT, 0 my ſoul, y itil * *
To. think a while. on death;

Bring near the time when thou ſhalt draw
Thy laſt and feebleſt breath.
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Fond of this body as thou at
Thou muſt this eis ?:
Indulgent heaven ſo often king
No longer will 8 | |
1 26
No tears of friends ſhall then ira, beta ch
Nor the phyficiar's fkill T!
The purple ride of life muſt ſtop; 1 90 4
And every nr be - wn 7
Earth to it's parent earth muſt turn 1
Nor is the doom unjuſt; =
Sin that defiles this .
Conſigns it to the * 5
f |
Muſt I chen leave this world behind
When my ſhort race is run?
No more converſe with 28 that's Gd!
Beneath the — ſu

And muſt this ſoul. of mine ſurvive --
The ruins of this-clay? #4 Fore 1

N wing it's doubtful way ?

250 HY MN CCxvIII.
VII.
Then fit me, Lord, for that great change
I know muſt ſoon enſue:

For death prepar'd, my change muſt be
As bleſt to me as new.

CCXVIII. Common Metre,
T he doubtful proſper.
WH: ſhould I be fo very fond
Of this mean houſe of clay?
Why when it totters do I wiſh
To make a longer ſtay?
II.
In priſon, and in fetters too
How often I complain?
Yet ſtart at death, and rather chuſe |
To drag the galling chain.
III. :
How will it fare with my poor ſoul
In great ſuſpence I ſay;
When it to new and unknown worlds
Muſt wing it's 1 way?
* V
The road of death to me *
Untried it's gloomy vale:
My guilty fears o'erpower my faith,
And hope doth almoſt fail.
V.
But has not Jeſus trod this road,
And triumph'd over death?

Can't Jeſus chear when natute yields |

Her laſt and weakeſt breath? |
Yes,

*
HIT M N CCXIK. 231

: Wo
Yes, my redeemer can ſupport - — ©

When fleſh and heartſhall fail:
His faithful ſervants he will guide
Through death's moſt gloomy alle;
VII.
O could 1 daily live like him,
Then guilt would not diſmay
Unmov'd I would my ſummons 257 K
And joyous. * wy clay.

CCXIX, Common Metre.

Das wt Fen wk

I. .
T muſt be ſo— tis heaven's decree
That guilty man muſt die :
The rich, the poor, the king, the ſlave
In duſt muſt .
Who can by art find out the means
His ſpirit to detain?
Med' cine, by death ſubdued, muſt own
Her boaſted powers but yain.
Wm... *
The tyrant death what gifts can bribe,
His brother who redeem ? |
Not ſilver can the tyrant charm,
Nor gold will he eſteem.
IV.
In this laſt war there's no diſcharge,
Nor tears, nor prayers can ſave;
Not goodneſs, celeſtial form,
Can reſcue from the grave.
112 Well —

*

5
252 HY M. Nt. CC xx. :
V.
en end my turn wẽill eee
My race will ſoon be run:
My eyes in dark neſs clog'd no more
Shall ee a enliraning un: |

Come let me then converſe: ee ot
From which I cannot fly: :
Till life's beſt leſſon a learnt,
The happy art to * '
Dead to the world, and dead to. fin
What ſhould. diſmay my heart?
Faith tells me even death is mine,
And bids my fears depart.

ccxx. Common Metre.

Victory over death thro Chriſt. Cor. xv. 55, |
* 5 |

Hence, O — Gl, the dreadiof death?
Why chills this word my heart?
Is this the. 4 fr that I muſt ſoon
With this degr a ?

my beſt eſtate?
Can I. no happier findd?ꝰ”d?ꝰ:
Are there no treaſures but the drofs -
The worldling I behind?
II
Oh *tis the cruel tyrant guilt
| Creates e ar! 10s
Guilt which o'erclouds our Joyous hours,
- Apd ſtrikes our Has dead.

*
Is this vain world

ond DE

.
| H N ** Ny CM.
IV. = 5
Hence death his Warpe ſting Ave,
And hence the painful wound;

Fatał to man had not kind heaven
A cure moſt e ns found.

"Behold a law, to life ordain d.
. Now gives us no relief;
Strengthen'd-by ſin it deeper wounds,
And heightens every grief.
* M
By ſighs agd flowing tears unmov'd,
Deaf to each melting word;
The. law in dreadful thunder ſpeaks
The terrors, of the Lord.
„
‚ But hark 4 che goſpel ſpeaks, 1 bear
It's ſoft, melodious voice;
<« Deſpair not, humble ſouls, but look
* 0 Jeſus and rejoice.
2 5
6 Tels the law has well fulfitPd, 7
And he it's curſe did bear:
* Repentance God will now accept,
For mercy r ſpare. 8 45
<< Jefus deprives the tyrant death, .
Of his envenom'd ſting :
Dying, he-vanquiſh'd death, and roſe
The conqueror and the king,

—-

.

« 'The ſaints thro? Chriſt ſhall conquer too
66 * Now he has left the dead:
They

.
254 H Y MN CcxxI.
They fall, but they ſhall riſe again
And rriurnph with their head.
MT;
& Thanks be to God who thro? his ſon
The bleſſed conqueſt gave:

* Now where's thy pois' nous ſting, O death!
And where thy victory * 125

4 4

CCXXI. | Common Metre.

On the death of pious relatives and friends.
+ Theft. w. 13. 14.

I.
HEN p pious Laz' rus breath his laſt,
A friend to Jeſus dear;
= * the man of Nr en 18 0 g
Ko We too the eli tear may drop
= O'er pious friends remov'd;
= Griey'd when the world has loſt a ſaint
* By Chriſt is Lord approv'd. Pg
1 .
Thus gature's diftates we obey, '
And vent our inward grief;
But ſtreaming tears and plaintive ſighs
Afford but ſmall relief $i
W
Hear, mourners, hear, tis faith now fi
Why ſhould ye longer weep? |
Know that the pious friends you mourn
EIn Jeſus ſweetly ſleep. |

Let

.

v.

; . . 0 3 Let « $a Heathens hopeleſs grieve.

And ſorrow to exceſs:

- g « The faint who hopes for future bliſs,

{728 Should ſoon hus & tears rs ſupprefs.
* Know that the time hos long ſhall come,
« Bleſt birth-day of thejuſt!
When Chriſt ſhall bring his faints with him
And wake their fleeping duft.
VII.
« « Jeſus the bleſt firſt-fruits aroſe, | .
« And hence the lively ho
Hence the fweet earneſt which enſures.
«* ThEtull and riper'd aur.
| oh £(OLNEG
« His power ſhall change the viler clay,
A glorious form to wear:
His body ſhall the pattern be,
« And their's the 1 nee fair.“
X 21
*hus faith our drooping ſpirits chears, |
Ihen let us grieve no more;
But tread the iteps our pious friends
_ Have mark'd and trod błfore.
X.
Thus may we keige ſafe to arrive
At the ſame world of bliſs:
Our former friendſhips there renew,
And all our x griefs dſmils.

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CCXXII. Common Metre. :

The ** of the dead that die i the Land.
Rev. xiv. 13.

r |
ES. they are bleſt, the dead a are bleſ
| Who die in Chriſt 'their Lord: 0
Thus s ſpake the voice from heaven, and 1 lo!
The Wien ſeals the * TY

To all B'S: = labburk, — their 5
They bid their long adie | 7 »
And to rs world of perfect reſt FRY
Their works _ purſue.
1 Sickneſs and tort ring pains belong |
3» To this dark vale of tears 5
= Snares, and temptations are without,
= Within are doubts Lang fears. o
But the bleſt manſions of the juſt
Are ſafe from every ill:
Diſeaſe and pain ſhall vex no more
But loſe their 7 to kill.
V.
Death? with. it's hateful parent ſin,
Shall fink in endleſs night: |
The ſaints ſhall waſh their garments clean,
And fhine in robes 5 light:
V

The lamb ſhall lead to living ſtreams
Whoſe waters ne'er decay:
And God with his own hand ſhall wipe
Their former tears away.
Arriv'd

o + 4.4 *

s

WY M N CCXXIII. 257.1

VMI.
Arriv'd at their bleſt port they hear v4
The tempeſt ragenomoreg - oo |
But bleſs the hand hero bene
To the eternal ſnore.

CCXXIII. Painmen dome

The chriſtian's conſolation-againſt the fearo Fdeath
from the proſpett of of a {oper refurre, on. 7

WII gude 5 fa int 5 184 to „ find |
:

$ earthly h ouſe decay?
Why dread the grave*when faith proclaims
A glorious 7 ng 70 wi

Yes, the great x. -who holds the byy
Of death and hell, will come: |
That powerful voice which nature ebm f

Shall 11 break up every tomb. 241 T
III. ;
Vile as the breathleſs body is, = =
Conſign'd to worms and duſt; |
It then a tadiant form ſhall take
Moore glorious in” ap ff.
I 1
In incorruption it ſhall riſe |
(So ſpeaks the book of ſac ;
And bloom ſecure from r Ul
In an immortal youth.
V
Refin d from eatthly dregs it's d
Shall be celeſtial meat:
Fruits pluckt from life's unfading tree *
The fruits which Angels eat. E
La K k The

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View well the ri

25 H T MN CCXXIV.
VI.

To wear a
What can't the mighty Saviour as,
When love and power combine 2
VII.
Why then, ye ſaints, ſhould ou regret |
To quit your feeble clay, E

Who hope for ſuch a us change
At the great riſing day?

XXIV. Common Metre.
The grand ſeparatian; or the ſheep divided from
the goats. Mat. xxv. 31 uu.

1; |
EnoLp he comes-—the j a
With all his glories ws 2
chold each nation, tribe and

The earthly image ſhall be d ö
divine:

The judgment ſeat 1

mark the joy
Oer ev'ry feature ſpread:

But Oh ! what pale aſtighted looks,
Beſpeak the e 0

Now truth appears, no-envious cloud
Can hide her radiant face:

Now names and forms, and borrow'd maſks
No rn —_

V

As from his ſheep the ſhepherd parts |
Hug goats at even-tide, -

So the good, the righteous
The wicked ſhall divide, judge

Rang'd

HYMN NV.

Rang d on che * *
Shall their 7 ſentence hear ;

Whilſt on the fett, th ungodly world
Too late their W 2 fear.
Among the ſaints at Chriſt's right hand,

May I, Lord, find a place;
Enroll d among the heirs of God,
The firſt- born ſons pb: -

Then ſhall I WG... hear,
Ihe judge pronounce. me bleft « 2

And ſhare the kingdom long prepar'd,
That ſweet and endleſs reſt.

CCXXV. Common Metre,

Seeing through a laſs, or our Preſent knowledge
Go. impeſen. 1 Cor. x11, 12.

.

"wy little we poor mortals know ?
et how vain is man 7
He 1 wiſdom, but alas
His knowledge is 1
1
Tis through a glaſs obſcure we look,
And truth we diſtant ſpy z |
Fancy, falſe medium, comes between,
And cheats our 12 eye.
Now ſuperſtition, antic form,
The garb of truth will wear:
Now error marrs her beauteous face,
That ſhone divinely fair.
>". TS 5 Ten

1
= N.

260 H T M N ccxxv.
I.
Ten thouſand obſects lie conceal”
In ænigmatie dre?

"Tis but the ſmalleſt part we be.
The reſt we only puck.”

The preſent ſtate ite nonage „
We think as children don:
Like them we reaſon, talk and act,
And have our trifles too.
VI.
Tis by dim twilight mortals walk,
Led by falſe fires we ſtra y;
Forc'd oft to meaſure back e our: 9117
To gain the narrow way.
733 VII.
| Strangers at home, we rove abroad,
The fields of ſcience trace;
From ſtar to ſtar our fancies run,
Loſt 1 in th* unbounded ſpace.
VIII.
Nature ler choiceſt ſecrets hides
From man's moſt curious eye;
PuzzPd is he, and bafff'd quite,
By on werm and fly.
The God of nature who ſhall then
Preſume to comprehend ? ©
Whoſe matchleſs, boundleſs glories far
Our habet _—_— tranſcend,

How ſhall our narrow Eden ſpan,
Immenſity confine ?

How reach thoſe heights, and ſound thoſe

depths,

Beyond an Angel's line? There 8

HT MN CCXXVI. 261
XI.
There's not the ſmalleſt grain of ſand, |
On ocean's ampleſhore,
Bur 'ſcapes our ſearch; and ſeems to fy
Man, wonder and adore.
W.
The ways of providence how dark N.
It's mazes who can ſhew? __
Too long the chain, the links too fine
For mortal eyes to view.
XIII.
What a thick veil of fleſn divides
The other life from this?
Hell---who can this fad world deſcribe ?
Or who the heaven of bliſs ?
XIV.
Nor eye hath ſeen, nor-ear hath heard,
Nor heart conceiv'd the joys
Of that pure bliſs which fills the ſoul,
But never, never cloys.
XV.
Wait humbly then, my foul, till thou
Shalt drop this cumb'rous clay
Then ſhall thy twilight ceaſe, and all
Be one perpetual day. »

CCXXVI. Common Metre,

Seeing face to fact; or knowledge made perfet
in beaven. 1 Cor. Xull 12.

rn
Prins: is an keavenly paradiſe,
Where fruits immortal grow;
Where ſtreams from life's unmixed ſpring,
In ceaſeleſs currents flow,

"Tis

46 fl T MN ccxxvI
II.
Tis here che tree of knowledge W |
And ever bloſfſams-hers : grown ;
There's no forbidden fruit to tempt,
Nor guileful —_— near. ;

The bliſs of: Jeath, * ſweet ſurprize
The bleſt alone can tell:

Could ſaints no know the bliſs, who could
On earth contented-dwell ?

| IV.

0 may my foul: be well prepar'd
To take from earth her flight!

May ſome kind angel me conduct
To this world of light.

V.

Then mall 1 need a glaſs no more,
No more my dimneſs own:

But ſhall as clearly fee, and know...
As J am ſeen and _

VI.

No longer ſhall. I doubtful walk
By faith's more glimmering ray ;

No longer need the prop of hope,
My drooping * ſtay.

Tis viſion, *tis fruition all,
A pure and ſteady ek

Nor miſts, nor clouds ſhall veil my day,
Nor hall I ſee a night.

| VII. ;

Then ſhalt I drink — of cruth
Pure at the fountain head

Shall hunger juſt as Angels do, F
And with their food be fed. No

n T N ccxxvn Ko

IX.
No more like children ſhall tall,
Nor reaſon in their ſtrain: Abt
The perfect man in wiſdom pe. NN
Will childiſn e 91571 e 20

Diſputes, ſad bane to love and ad

Shall then be known no more;
All with one eye ſhall ſee, and al
Witch oneconſent Os *

L
The wond'rous ſcheme of in
Now wrapt in ſhades of night x
I then. ſhall view without a wow: S >) 1
And ſee that all Tg TERS: |
With what new tranſport ſhall I trace
The grace which reſcyed man;
When my bleſt eyes ſhall gaze on all
The beauties of 2 5

But O to ſee the face of God
As Angels it behold !

And by this fight to be transformed,
Who can the bliſs unfold ? Ne

CCXXVII. Log Metre.

The peaceful ſociety of heaven ; or the ſpirits
. Heb. x11. 23.

LEST are the ares that dwell above,
In the pure element of love: _
They know no rage, nor cruel ſpleen,
But all is peaceful and ferene
x Celeſtial

— *

abs H Y M N ccXXVII.
II. .
Celeſtial Wie elch breaft inſpires
Kindling within her pureſt wp 95? 207/
To larps of gold Phe ſweetly 39 75
Nor is there fo und a Jarring ſtring
III.
How bleſt on earth would mortals. be,
Did love conſtrain them to . 9 !:
Drawn by her ſoft and powerfu cords '
Of mighty deeds and " —_ words.
1

Did love unfeign'd each heart engage,
*Twould be a truly golden age
Then ſhould we ſhew our heavenly birth,
And heaven itſelf * to earth.

111

Ye ſons of ſtrife your wrath forbeas,”

Nor like wild beaſts purſue and tear:

How can ye think to dwell above,

Who have not learnt the art to love Ty _
| VI.

Ye zealots, vain will be each plea -

Whilſt zeal conſumes your charity:

Love only can pure zeal inſpire, +

The reſt 1 is ſtrange a and Gang: 3 1

CCXXVILL . 5
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OW happy are 2 ſaints
Who dwell and reign above
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w calm their region is,

The element of bore! | 128
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Each feels the ſacred Warnuh,
And each to pleaſe confpires :.: Is
To harps. of 4 % 1W07 THI Ve
They ſwer as 2 |
Nor 1s there 2 * *
A jarring ſtriag .
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To peace and Harmony:
_ Drawn by heriſo
= But powerful cords FIG F
of friendly deeds W
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And every heart ge,
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To dwe| above,
Who have not ale
The art to. love Pip!
VI. * <> 8
Ye zealots blind as fierce, | |
Vain will be every plea, :
Whilh your deſtroying zeal
Conſumes yaur charity :
"Tis love alone
Pure zeal Ae 45
The reſt are
And dang'rous fires. |
CCXXIX. Common Mets:
A view of beaven .
I.
OunT or my thoughts, and | chearful
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The glorious realms above; n
W abode, h
Where reigns immortal love. I
II. 1 |
Here God diſplays his mildeſt eg
His gracious throne around :
Here Jeſus ſmiles, and Angels ang
To harps of _— found.

O could m U
The veil that han r
And to my purer ſight

The things by —

How

Nn T MN CCXXX; 267

IV.
How ſhould I pity all that make
This world their higheſt joy? ;
Defraud their ſouls; and miſs of heaven,
To gain a gilded toy. Si

My ſoul with heaven poſſeſt lik n
Would this mean earth appear ?
It's joys, ſhould not excite one wiſh,
Ir's ills, command a tear,
VI.

The new, the lively hi e within, 397751
My ſoul ſhould p 5

Angels ſhould view ther ous in me,
And lend me win il. fly,

Then ſhould death ſeize my mortal Tame,
Id welcome my releaſe ; .

And triumph as kind Angels waft
My foul to endleſs peace. ..,

CCXXX, Common Metre. ZW
The ſteward preparing to give his account. Luke

K time draws nigh my ſoul, when
thou

hy laſt account muſt gi BEES

When thy whole life ſhall be Garvey „
By him who bid Bey .

How many talents, O my God,

Haſt thou beſtow'd on me ?

But yet how little can be found,

That I have done for thee ? 4

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268" H N Ecxixx01

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My heap, my ee dur, worldly aer,
And thy more precious word

Thy talents are; for theſe muſt 253 l PUA0C!
Account to thee mY. Lord. *

Much ef my tine Wer Poe he's *
And much have I miſpent: Oe

How careleſs of my E . |
On trifles how mo”, 2 1

How little £99 have'T recery'd: d -

Ho lit l Idone?

How oft my feet have trot the bene
1 know I ought I *

Pity my weakneſs, gracious —
My fins thro? Chnft for! POV

Teach me henceforth! not: to aer
But unto thee to Irve.' 5

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O may the Qothful ſervant's doom, 8
My holy care excite; 15
Each talent may I well i improve,
And in thy Work delight. 5
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Shall Rand before th ; ou 7 Net

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The great 2 of revelation.” — Tit. 14.

N „ N

MI give ear, the 211 thy,
The laſt, the great affize -

Advances frift as At fly. -.
The guilty to ſurprize.
II.

That eye which ſees thro? darkeſt —
Of ſecrecy and night:
That ear which every whiſper hears
Shall bring each 7 to light.
2
How will the ng ſtand ©
To ſee 1 ALL
And all their thoughts made publick then”
Which lay before Aida 1

Horror and anguiſh ive their fouls,
Deſpoil'd of each diſguiſe :

Deſpair now racks their guilty breaſts,
And hope for * 861

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Not ſo the righteous they fhall ſtand,
Nor vengeance them affright :

The judge ho goodneſs bore will ring
Their ſecret ood to light,

Th

Blaſlung with joy, the faint ſhalt hear
Each pious deed proclaim d:.

And ſee his name with honour ſhine
By malice once defam'd.

T hus

_
VII.

Thus by an interpoſing ſphere
The ſun is veildin night,
But ſoon heſhews his face with all

The majeſty of light. | 1

CCXXXII. Short Metre.

* firſt and ſecund coming. Phil. ii. 7, 8,
Mat. vi. .

Bene from realms of light

God's ſon deſcends to earth:
is form divine with fleſh he ee
And W _—

The ſervant's form he wears, N

Nee takes the ſervant's > |

pon a ſhameful croſs expires | |
re ſave our guilty race.

III.
But in a different form

He will one day be known:
In his great Father's glory dreft,

And mining! in his ow u.

IV.

Amidft e train

He ſhall to earth defends. 74
And his ten thouſand happy ſaints |

Admiring ſhall 1
| Whilſt:they - behold their king

With heavenly glories crown'd;

In ſweeteſt ſtrains their tuneful tongues |
Ss his high honours ſound.

| His

H TMN CCXXXIN. *
VI.
His foes ſhall trembling ſtand 3 1
Before his awful thronee

Whilſt to the world this righteous * ige
Shall make his juſtice known. : 2

CCxXXXIII. Common Metre.
The certainty of Chriſt's coming to judgement.”

James v. 9. Rev. x. 5, 6.

| ELLcome=the: judgewillſurel *
H Ye Atheiſts mock no more; WF
His chariot wheels are . on,
3 is —_— door:
1
1 lide the ſtreams of time Along «
ring the awful day;
Each flying hour withdrawing for,
The judge will K delay. |
| IT.
See where the mighty Angel ſtands,
Embracing ſea and ſhore;
To heaven he lifts his hand, and aeg
That time ſhall be no more.
IV. ©
He ſwears—behold the Judge deſcends |
His office to compleat:
The tribes of Adam trembling ſtand
Before the 9 ſeat.
Prepare, my ſoul, to meet thy Judge,
Thy life throughout ſurvey:
From evil ceaſe, and learn the good

If thou would'ſt ſtand that day: 5

272 H T M N. CCXXXIV.
.
Waſh'd in thy; Saviour blood thy des
e white:
An ho can view NEON 01 Ali 5
And ö in * _ ;

The ddl o the ju 1 1 been rin
X ſoul fo vulgar tharne,

The force ——.— ctr

My inmoſt heart 1 foal ab —

See where he comes with len le.
In cloudy chariot ſwiftly . id
Myriads of Angels on him wait,
His awful e e u:
A mighty trurop the ſignal gives
That wakes the nations under ground
Affrights the ſea, it's dead revives, .-
Who hear alike the powerful —
0 I
Sublime in air is fix d a throne, *
Wrought of a large and f plendid N 5
From hence the judge to alt is known,
Round this the trembling nations croud.
V.
Among the reſt muſt I appear, 1
Before the glittering — 2 "uy
O may have no cauſe to fear,
But in the judge the Saviour meet! .

2 Now

*

HY MN/ c 273

VL
Now _ I make the judge my nde
Accept his grace; his laws obey;
Then with the judge ſhall I aſcend.
To worlds of bliſs 005 ondials day.

CcxxxV. A Meue.
Th books opened. Rev. XxX. 12.

=
Mr ie the laſt great day is come,

I ſeem to hear the trumpet found, -
Which ſhakes the earth, rends every tomb,
And wakes the prigners under ground.
II.

The wighity deep gives up her truſt,
Avid by the judge's high commantt :
The ſmall and great now quit their uſt, |
And round TE tribunal ftand.
_
In vain the wicked ſtrive to ſhun
The judge's quick, and piercing eye:
In vain to hills and mountains run,
And to the rocks for ſhelter cry.
This bar impartial will not Rnow
Nor birth, nor rank, nor royal ſtate:
Nor kings are high, nor beggars low,
The good are here, OED only great.

Behold the awful books dif 27 d,
Big with th' important fates of men;
Each deed and word now public made,

As wrote by heaven's unerring pen.
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254 HY MN! COXXXVI. |
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To every work the books-afſign
The joyous, or the fad reward:
Sinners in vain lament and pine,

No pleas the * will here JF

Lord, when theſe awful leaves unfold,
May life's fair book my. works approve :

There may I read my name —_—
And 1 in redeeming love

' CEXXXVI. Long Metre.
e end of the world. 2 Pet. ii. 11.

I.
HE day, the folemin dayt ſhall come,
The long- delayed day of doom : +
The hour when God ſhall awful riſe,
And fears a guilty 2 * ſurprize.

Heaven's greate augen the glorious 1
No more aq wonted courſe ſhall run:

No more divide the varied year,
Oblig'd to quit his lofty ſphere.
III.
The moon, anfll ſtars extinguiſh'd quite,
No more ſhall rule the ſilent night:
Nor ſilver planets longer run
In dance harmonious round the ſun.
IV.
No ſooner ſhall th Almighty call 1 ble
But flames ſhall ſeize this earthly ball:
And heaven's high frame without —
N hideous craſh hall paſs away.

Their

HUY MN — 275
V.
Their ſeats the frighted mountains at,
The ſhrinking — their ſhores .
In rapid ſtreams of mingled fire

The hiſſing elements expire. 730
VI.

Theſe awful ſcenes my. ſoul .

For this tremendous day prepare:

How juſt, how holy muſt thou be e.

If — with joy this day would'ſt ſee?
CCXXXVII. Common Metre.

The new Feruſaltm.” Rev. vil. 15. Kc. xxl. 4.
TP 225 &c, |

HERE; is a — large and "I
Beyond the lofry ſkies : |
Not built by feeble hands of fleſh,':
Unſeen by mortal 45 | 9 O
Here *tis th* Almighty builder G0
Has fix*d his ſhining throne:
Here to his ſaints, from fleſh releas
He makes his * known.
8 5
Within this new. Jeruſalem ®
No temple can be found
Nor temple can that city need
Where all is holy ;

No ſun it wants to form the day 3, iN
Nor moon to ſhine by night;
God is it's temple, and the Lamb
ar 8 - A a and conſtant light, *
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356 HY M N cexxxvn.

V.

The everlaſting pearly gues ac |
Are ever open here fed]

In light the bleſſed nation walk, bigger nf
Nor dangers * fear.

Sickneſs and pain they 1 feel no more,
For death is fled POM)
The Lamb's pure ſtreams of life chey arink |

| Throughout th* immortal day.
7 II. II1 7
No more 1 hunger, thirſt no more,
Nor fetch one plaintive ſigh;
The God of peace, their God ſhall 22
All tears from every . tan re
VIII.
But the profane, and the impure
In wt will he diſclaim:
The Lamb's fair book of life rejects
Each vile and filthy name. |

CCXXXVHI. Common Metre, |
*Cbrifts baptifis our example.

Come, the great ++ Wa .
To do thy will, O Lord: ;
At Jordan's flood behold he deals
The ſure *

Thus it becomes us to fulfill
All righteouſneſs ; he ſaid,
« He ſpake obedient, and beneath

« The yielding wave was nd
See

This and the following N are ſuited to thoſe that
practiſe adult baptiſm.

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III.
See, as he riſes from the flood ich 9
The openin heaven divide
Dove. Hie the Holy - Ghoſt deſcends, | 24
And on his Head 8 Sols 316Þf! |
Hark! a glad voice, the father ſpeaks '
From heaven's exalted height ;
* This is my ſon, my ——
„My joy, deg:

Hail Jeſus! Siviang well beloved!
T'hy name we will profeſs:
Like thee defirous to fulfill - _
Each law of W e
I
On us the bleſſed unction pour
Of the celeſtial dove:
On us for ever may he reſt,
And ſeal our father's love.
VII.
With water waſh'd, but better cleans'd
In a diviner food ;
Our lives, well form'd by thine, ſhall ſhew
The virtues of * bloods -

ccxxxxx. Common Metre.
An bymu before baptiſm. Rom. vi. 4.
J.
92 was the great Na .
Joyful we follow him who came

In Jordan's ſacre
= water and by blood.

- -

Yet

I NM N

vos. 2 NI. 7

11
Yet not the pureſt ſtreams that flow ö
Can waſh from guilt within?
The bloed of Chriſt, that richer ſtream, Ct
Mult cleanſe from * rg
Come ye of contrite hearts, and mourn.
The error of ygur ways |
Repent, and pard' ning race ſhall turn i
Your ſighs 9 off praiſe, ..

Come, and obey! 1 3 an,
Unaw'd by fear, or name:
Come, and with water ſeal the love
Lou bear to his great name.
V.
Buried with Chriſt, with him we die
Unto the world and ſin:
Riſen with him, we muſt the AER
The heavenly life begin.
VI.
Jeſus, no more are we our own, 1
But thine in bonds of love:
O may ſuch bonds for ever draw
Oe ſouls to.things above!

ODOT. Common Metre.

Religion the foundation of national happineſs :
ſuited to a time of war. Prov. xiv. 34.

J.
ELIOToN ne'er by art was form d,
To awe the vulgar mind:
Her charming features well ſurvey,

And ſoon her birth you'll find.

Offspring

HIT MN: COXL, 279
II. t .
Offspring of. heaven, « on man ſhe darts 1
Her moſt propitious, ray: as
His welfare 1s her "higheſt with,
To bliſs ſhe points, the yay. {WES
B75” VOTA
A e ſceptre Ig holds forth |
To grace the hands of Kings :
The fathers of their people the
Protects beneath her vings.
TV:
Subjekts by her wiſe maxims taught,
Their rank, and duty know
Thus whilſt ſhe props the throne, her gifts
Extend to all below.
a V.
Kingdoms and ſtates, or riſe or fall,
As virtue ebbs or flows:
Tis her's to make the weakeſt ſtrong,
Whilſt vice the ſtrong o 'erthrows.
N
Britain be wiſe, thy foes well know;
Thy ſins the greateſt far: |
To theſe thy utmoſt ſtrength oppoſe,
And wage eternal l &

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Then fearleſs truſt, the Lord of hofts |
Will teach thy hands to fight:

Secure thy empire o'er the ſeas, SIN
_ Pu thy foes to *

' The

CCXLI.

enemic.

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| Common Metre.

The churches fetur, rity,” and the ah
Mat. xyi. ..

ow. let the chogh glad hom ay,

N To her exalted king: 2 b 7
Jeſus her glory and ,
Le ſaints united 1 -

—

Let earth and hell in — combin'd,
With all their might affall : +.

The facred fabrick ſtill muſt ſtand, |
Nor hell's proud gates prevail.

The mighty God that rules the ſkies,
rage reſtrain;
In vain they form their cruel Schemes,
x Anm

has mix'd,
Shall one more ae

As falls the mill-ſtone in the deep,
Proud Babylon ſhall fink.”

VI.

Rejoice ye ſaints, the vengeance long,
For her laid up in ſtore, _

Is haſtening on, and Babylon

Shall fink to riſe no more.

615

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Why ſhould dark as 0 ereloud Fowl faith,
And all your courage ſhock ?

Jeſus the ſure foundation fd
Firm on the ſtable rock.

} :
—

Britain's

H 3 M 1 * ecki 281

8 .COXLI.. Long Metre.

* Britain's dangers and delbwerances.
= |
1* joyful ſtrains ye Britons A 1
The praiſes of your God and .

Tell of his wondrous works 113
How far above your 8 praiſe |

Sing how his "I. glorious ray.
Chas'd error's gloomy night away:
Bid truth with all her charms ariſe,
And liberty ſalute our FI
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Bleſt be the gracious hand that broke
Of Rome and hell, the galling yoke:
Bleſt voice that ſounds a jubilee,
And bids the captive ſouls go free
. IV.
Oft have the ſons of Rome combin'd
To forge new fetters for the mind:
But watchful heaven, our friend ſupreme, -
As oft has broke the a ſcheme.
Let plots with ruin big be laid,
Contriv'd in hell's moſt ſecret ſhade; 3
Yet hell's dark ſhades ſhall not conceal,
What heaven all-gracious will reveal. |
VI.

The wretches ſee, with. ſore affright, - +
Their cruel ſchemes all brought to light :
In the ſame fatal net enſnar d, 120651
INE had for Britain's ſons prepar d.

Nn Briton's

* This and the following hymn are ſuited to the 5th of Nov.

282 HT MN CCXLIII.
Briton's rejoice, and love the Lord,
Whilſt ye his wond'rous acts record;
And let your beſt obedience prove
The ſtrength and greatneſs ot. your love.

_CCXLIIL Common Metre.
' Britain's happineſs and duty.
LEST land ! where truth divinely fair,
With liberty can ſmile;
Thou Britain art the happy ſpot,
Of heaven the . iſle.
Defended by th' embracing ſeas,
And bleſt with fertile ſoil ;
No hoſtile bands thy harveſts reap,
And cheat the * toil.
3 III.
No ſhining ſilver Gods we know,
Nor golden gods we own;
Jehovah is our God, and we
Will worſhip him alone.
2 IV. |
Rome's iron yoke no more we feel,
Nor like our fathers
No haughty Pope commands our faith,
But conſcience is 9 own. e
The book of life with open page,
Salutes our joyful eyes:
From hence we draw our purer faith,
And here our treaſure lies.

Bleſt

HY M N CCXLIV. 283
VI.
Bleſt be the hand that burſt the yoke,
And broke it's cruel bands: |
Bleſt be the God whoſe power and love
Surround the Britiſh lands.
VII. |
Britons be wiſe, and know your day ; x
Your glad obedience yield :
Then in new fears your God ſhall be
Tour Saviour and your ſhield.
VIII. |
Britons ſtand faſt, your ground maintain, |
Since Chriſt has — you fre
Keep far from Rome's tyrannick Iway, .
And from her ſpirit flee. -

CCXLIV.: Common Metre.
On a publick faſt in a time of war.

4 |
M holy God, thou judge ROT
We bow before thy throne ; |
With humble voice, and hearts we come,
Our numerous _— OW.
n
As ſtreams impure will conſtant flow
From a polluted ſource;
So have our grievous fins run down
| Increaſing 1 in W
I
Our crimes alas l are deep engrav d
As with an iron pen ;
So Judah's were, and we like him,
Can boaſt few righteous men.
Nan 2 If

120 H Y MN ccxLIV.
e

5 If Judah Gas he muſt expect

To feel an heavier yoke ;

| 4 that tread in Judah's ſteps
Should dread an _ ſtroke.

See juſtice draw — glittering ſword,
Whilſt mercy ſays forbear:

« Firſt let me het — edge ſhe cries,
“ fain the e e 3

« But if the ſinner ſtill rebels
My patience kindly flow ;

c Incens'd at le ſhall lift her arm,

And deal the 3 | blow.“

Britons in time inſtruction take,
Remember Judah's fate:

Leaſt Britain be what Canaan i is,
a land left deſolate.

VIII. |

Repent, and hope an injur'd God

Will bleſs the land he choſe :

Appoint ſalvatiom for thy walls,

And quell thy might foes,

THEY

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CCXLYV. Common Metre. |
Imploring divize direction. Prov. iii. 5, 6.

I.
ORD, through the dubious a of lie
Thy feeble ſervant guide :
Supported by thy pow'rful arm
My foot-ſteps _ not Ak.

Let others ſwell'd with empty pride
Of wiſdom make their boaſts ;
My wiſdom and my ſtrength muſt come
F rom thee, the Lon of hoſts.
I
'Tis not in man that walks to find
The ſafe, the narrow way:
Few find the road to ſolid bliſs,
But thouſands go aſtray.

To

£86 H YM N CCXL.VL.
IV. |
To thee, O my unerring guide! |
I would myſelf reſign :
In all my ways acknowledge thee,
And form my will * thine.

Thus ſhall each Weg of thine hand
Be doubly ſweet to me :
And in new griefs I fill ſhall de
. A refuge, Lord, of os thee.

Lord, by thy counſel whilſt T live
Guide thou my wand'ring feet:
And when my courſe on earth is run

Conduct me to thy ſeat.

CCXLVI. Common Metre.

The duty and advantages of ſulting God .
e us, 8 xvi.
„
LEST is the man who always ſets
| The Lord before his face:
Whoſe faith can view a preſent God
Poſſeſſing ev'ry place.
. Ha
Such faith ſhall well ſecure the ſaint,
And make him ſtrong within :
Joſeph the preſent God beheld,
Nor dar'd the youth to fin.
III.
See pleaſure, wealth, and honour } join
To conquer Moſes” heart:
But the brave Hebrew ſtands unmoy =
* ſcorns their feeble art,

Not

HII M N CCXLVII. 287
| 2
Not Pharaoh's wrath, nor Pharaoh's hoſts
Can his great foul diſmay:
His faith ſtill views a God unſeen,
And Moſes will 1 4 tant tnt
By ſuch bright patterns ever led.
And ſway d by Heavenly grace,
I roo ſhall learn the art to ſer
The Lord before my face.
x ty VL
Thus Jeſus did; and widely ſheds -
His beams divinely bright:
Saints are but ſtars, but he the ſun
Shines with his native light.
8 VII.
Chear'd by thy preſence, O my God!
Each tempter Pll defy: :
And in the paths of duty run,
Becauſe thou, Lord, art nigh.

_ CCXLVII. Long Metre.
On the Lord's day.

1

0 let us praiſe our heavenly king,

Of grace the never- failing ſpring:
Be this our work, this our delight _
From morn to noon, * noon to night.
Let Angels who pure raptures feel
Witneſs the fervour of our zeal; N
And ſee in our bright flames of loye
An emblem of the church above.

18 Come,

2b H Y M N cl Mill.
MI. 25

Come, for the ſacred hours TOE 3a”

Come, give the Lord of Lords iv right:

Leave =— with it's gay. ener behind.

To feaſt on 1 moſt — .
Fae poi:

On we his grace and diſplay'd:

To day, the Saviour! 2

And his bleſt — widely Prag

Rejoice, ye Saints, for pardon? s your's, ©

Such bliſs the blood of Chrift procures :

Who ſhall condemn ?. Since Chniſt that dy'a

Aroſe, and now is . *

Glory and Prülce to God of hight "ke 7
Who ſent his beſt beloy'd: toe: Wet I
Glory to him whoſe blood was'giv'n, -
To make a laſting peace with heav'n.

ccxLvil. Common Metre.
On the ſame.
IE fun in his unweartd gourſe _ \
1 Has chas'd the night away
And now the circling hours have brought!
This firſt,” "I w_ =

9

Of that pa ee AT

Which knows do toil, no work di but that
12 Praiſe and holy love.

O could

1 YM N cex Lx 589

III.
O could Like he faint on high -
From mortal cares be free!!
Then ſtould this ſaved day of reſt
Be heaven ſelf to me.
IV.
Mounting Zach ra cee ue
With al 68 glitt'rin ne” |
n e 3 V.
The mankoas ofthe juſt ,

Lord give my foul hel: active: wings,
-, Cy ee Pare away; W
Nor let a. Angle word ar thought |
Toll the ſacred: Wo.
The beauty of thy courts, O 2
My foul ſhall „ admire : - » - 56a
Such fweet foretaſtes ſhall make me Tong
To have my heaven entire.

CCXLIX. Long Metre. |

7 be ring fone alarm d. Rom. xiil, 11, 12.
1 Cor. 7 34

A FAKE: my ſoul, lift up thy eyes,
Behold the bright immortal prize:
'Tis time, high time for thee to wake
When thine eternal * at ſtake.
.

The night is paſt, the goſpe I day
Shines from on high with. tang wp
Led by this ſun thy race begin, |
Nor 1 more inchdlgnthe p r Ain.

When

. *

UI.
When death has fix'd thy final ſtars ©
Prayers, tears, : and wiſhes come too = 7

Who can conceive, what tongue can rat 6
The fad ſurprize- 1 3 hell?

Whilſt others pleas d with airy ſchemes
Spend a whole life in waking dreams:
Whilſt they for bliſs a phantom *
And running ever 1 5 che race;

Lord, open thou my drowſy eyes

To ſee where my true int'reſt lies:
May Chriſt his — light diſplay,
And change my darkneſs into daß.

CCL. Common Metre.

All things are now ready; or, Room at the gof-
Fel fea Ln, 16—23-

OME, for the King of heaven i invites,
The goſpel feaſt attend :

For men, for ſinful men * :
What can ſuch grace tranſcend ?'

In honour to Mis Son the King
Has made this feaſt of love:
Come to his ſacred courts with Joys
And raiſe your 10. above.
Come, for all things are ready now,
The table's richly fpread ;
Come, drink, *tis' hewventy wine thar flows:
TG cat, tis heavenly” bread.

Come

n * N N COL 257
IV.

Come all ye heavyladen ſouls
Who feel an inward wound;
Come, for your cure as well as 6
At this bleſt feaſt i * found. bY
Ye rich accept the 'offer'd grace,

Your vain excuſes leave:
Come all ye poor with bfu a ears |

Your n ſhare receive.

N.

Come all ye dr of Adam's race,

An humble'plea'affume rr oo
Lord there's proviſion ſtill for more,

„And, Lord, there ſtill is room.“

CLI. Common Metre...
The chriſtian's triumph over death in proſpedt of
_ @ glorious refurrefion. Job xix. 25, 26, 27.
I,
EAR whilſt the faint his triumph fin
O'er death the king, of dread Þ

And boaſts his mighty put gain a

Through Chriſt W head.

He lives my great Redeerfier lives,

The bleſſed truth I know; .
Delightful thought! that ſooths my griefs,
And makes my Joys 'erflow. . -.

He that redeem'd my ſoul from hell...
Will make his work compleat;
The tyrant Death at length ſhall lie
— 2 vanquiſh'd at his N
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. H * 1 N.

IV.
; | Lerkickneſs white my mortal frame, | GI
And fleſh and heatt decay 3

Let death conſign my humbled form, &
To greedy \ worms = prey.

Yer faith diſpels the mournful gloom,
_ tells me: death is mine:

The grave, th my redeemer's 7h
cs l 70 + yow b
Wak'd from the duſt I ſhall behold
My Saviour with theſe —

And view his image ſt
Witch vaſtz with cet Tori.

CLI. Common Metre.

Faith in God ani Cbriſt the grand ſupport, or

LG 5 John xiv. 1—4.

1 ß ye ye weurning ſaints and vicy

The fealms of endlels da;

Thither the grent Fofe-runner's ene,
And ſhews 8 4 way.

Tes, to bb biaſes houſe he's gone,
Where many manſions ate:

For you he's gone, ard will for yon

A ſeat of i

He lives, ie beer 8 Jult, |

Nor will nor can DA

Ye who can truſt a faithful God, - .
2 Saviour's word believe. 23

« When

*

2)

H T MN! CEL, 293
IV.
$ When ILyour manſions hone prepar'd,
I'll come to you again;
And take you to my wiital ern,
For ever to remain.
V.
* Then let not trouble ſeize © your bes,
« But dry up * nary :
Believe in God, believe in me.
And ou have nought to fear.“

Jeſus, thy words of —4 and truth
SBrsupport the fainting heart:
O may I read them till I've Es
To bid all fears * 2

_cam Common Metre.

"The unchanging Saviour. Heb. xiii. 8. :
I.

ME let our chearful ſongs adore

Our Saviour's us name; -

' Jeſus we ſing, deli — 1

And Jeſus ſtill cl 4.64

eee ht.
The ſame in ew'ry age:
Eternal truth has wrote the lines,
Ann W
Let heav'n and earth both paſs away,
What can his truth aſſail?
He will fulfill the words ere

| Nor aan .

2% H Y M N CCLIV,
| IV.
Not. the high honours of his throne ©
Abate his tender love: 2
Still on his heart his — he _—_
And pleads. their cauſe above.
V.

The contrite heart he till regards,
And heals the inward pain:
No humble ſoul ſhall ever lay,
He ſought his * in vain.

Jeſus our Saviour, 2 our Lord,
We praiſe thy gracious: name? p
Thy truth and grace, ng er r and nd love,
For ever are the 7 |

CCLIV.. | Common Metre.
A warning to Britain. Rev. i I. 4, 5.
I.
1 night i is paſt, the dolefal —
Have long been chas d away;
The goſpel light on Britain ſhines,
And makes a 1 day. -

O happy Britain Fry thou gn
What moſt concerns thy peace ! _
Then would kind heaven 2 thy n
And all thy bliſs increaſe. | -
III.
How bleſt were Aſia's churches once, +
— Whilſt virtue made them ſhine?
But when their love and zeal was den
Faw ſoon did they decline?
LIT uss

H Y M N. CLV. 299
IV. |
Truss vice eclips d and quite obſcur d
The goſpel's glorious ligt:
Their day of grace abus'd droaght 06 on.
A 2 — and doleful night. -; |
V.
Read Britain, read in Aſia's doom
What dangers threaten thee :, .
Fly tar from Aſia's crimes. if thou
Would'ſt from her doom be free...

CCLV.. Short Metre: | | |
The bleſſedneſs of the Peas maler: Mat. v. 9.
LESF are the ſons of peace,
Whoſe ſouls are diſtant far
From envy, jealouſies and rage,
From tumult, noiſe and war.
II.
Their work it is, and joy; yr
Io ſow the ſeeds of peace:
To join divided hearts and n
— make all diſcord ceaſe.
III.
How glorious js their name!
The ſons: of God moſt high ;

How great their bliſs to have their Gody”:
Their Fathet ever — 20
See in their placid looks,
The heav'n that dwells wikis if
Learn from the ſons of peace their art,

And thus your heav'n begin.

him

2. H 1 . Cevi

V.
Great God of love Ae
Purge clean chis heart of mine
From all baſe-

On me thy peace dyine:
Then ſhall I, Lord, Alen

In works of pense Ul ove; "- nnen

Till I'm tranſlated to che PE i 19

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969 "4 *
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cl vl. Se e
| The great ſalvation. Heb. il *

II
Se the pleading: Grad! U
It makes my heart rejoice _

To ſing the theme-which Angels chaſes ©

Exalted be our _y es

Come let us ting che Father's love;
Who form'd the happy plan:
Come let's adore the e

Who reſcued _— 8

How great mut be fa falvation be
T' engage th ETzznaL MIND *
Great be it ever in our eyes,
Who here all — find;
Tis the ſalvation of che foul,
Our beſt immortal part;
Tis the of chat blies
That ever ͤ—ü—

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Nor will the gane of the ſoul,
Neglect the viler clay 3

But in new glories build it . 5 Ne.
At the bleſt — oy

Not Iſrael fav'd. * Pharach's hands,
Could ſuch deliv'rance tell:
Salvation which no end ſhall know,
All others muſt excell.
5 ME 17
Silver and gold boaſt not your power,
Your brighteſt charms decay
Nought but the precious blood of Chriſt;
Could een ranſom pay.
VIII. |
His blood he ſhed, ye ſaints rejoice,
Behold your wond'rous cure:
Hear but his voice, and him obey,
And your ſalvation? $ ſure.
1
But ſhould we to his ons voice,
Turn the rebellious ear,
What vengeance cannot he ingit
What wrath may we not fer?

CCLVII. Common Metre. 5
The wiſdom of God in the formation of the bu-
man body. Pl. AXE: 14s 15 16.

K.

\ \ THEN I with curious — furvey,
My co 3 N 2 5
I read on — part inſerib d

My great Creator's name. |
7 5 P 3 With

298 HY. M N .CCLVIEL
II.
With niceſt art in ſecret, Lord,
Thou didſt each member Write
And when thy model e, '
My eyes beheld the *

Thou bid'ſt the TR. flood of life,
In circling ſtreams to flow;
And ſend the vital heat above,
And to each part below.
_ i...
My heaving lungs whilſt have pow'r
To fan the Vie flame, oy yow's
Riſing and falling ſhall my God,
Thy wond'rous wa co

My heart, -that Suu ſource of *
By thee was taught to heat; 7
And ev'ry ſtroke in ſilence, Lord,
Does bis thy 1 repeat.
I.

My eyes by thee were
And form'd with

To ſee thy various beware pared,
Betwixt each A iſtant p.

VI

Why was my body form'd erect.

hilſt brutes bow down to earth?

But that T ſhould well rule for thee,
And claim my higher birth.

Why, Lord, ach ase 6d art

„Lord, with fuc d art

Was form'd this tongue of mine

But that this glory of the man
Should ſing thy praiſe divine. But

HT MN 'CCLvIIll. 299
IX.
But who can all the wonders tell
In this ſmall world of man?

I'm loſt, and own my largeſt oy”
Is but a narrow 5

Author of Hfe! er ſins,” ” 4
The 9 ö
Long as I breathe, and chink 100 a
Vi praiſe thy glorious name.

CCLVIII. Common Metre. _
The ſuperior dignity of the human 2
Job xi. 8.-—xxxv. 1 I. |

pow . — « are e all thy works?

In man what wonders meet:

The laſt of all thy works below,
And he the moſt I {5

From thy moſt Nie hands my fleſn
RNeceiv d it's curious frame:
Each bone and nerve, each vein declares
The honours of thy name. |
HE
But I've a ſoul, my nobler part,
Inſpir'd by thy own breath;
A ſoul that ry outhve this fleſh,
Nor feel the pow'r of death.
.
Whilſt ente and inſtinct lead the bene,
Nor can they farther go;
I, Lord, am * form'd and taught,

Reaſon

| 300 HT MN CCLVIII.
N.
| Reaſon and ee will and choice,
By thee were 5 wen;
To chuſe the good, to ſhun the ill,
And gain? a bleſſed 1
V |
My mem'ry, that myſterious
Thy goodneſs, Lord did give;
Tis hare my thoughts are buried firſt,
And bid again to live.
'Tis to this treaſ'rer of the mind
This ſong of praiſe I owe:
By this J learn what endleſs gifts = -
From thy rich bounty flow, ;
2 x 4 .
O may thy love enkindlc e,
And all my paſſions ſwa Wl
Teach thou each ſenſe an appetite
My reaſon to obey. |
TX. *
Now, Lord, my ſoul with alli it 8 n 5
To thee would I devote; |
And more than ever ſtrive each day
Thy glory to promote.
X.
My reaſon, will and paſſions all
Buy heavenly grace refine;
So ſhall my foul in beauty dreſt
With thine own image ſhine,

7

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Il muſt no longer be my own,

H Y M N CCLIK. 30%

CCLIX. Common Metre. |
* Rving ſacrifice, or religion 4 "reaſonable

e Rom. xii. I,
1 |
HEN I review thy mercies, Lord,
I aſk this foul of mine,
What ſhall I render, O my God,
For favours . thine !
Thy hands have form'd me, *tis in thee
I daily hve and move:
And ev ry hour is bringing ſtill
F reſh pledges of 4 love.

To thee, a living ſacrifice,
My body I preſent, _

To be — for thee, my God,
And in thy chr” aaa

To thee my ſoul, my nobler part
1 chearfully reſign :

Rule thou — 5 power, and let me have
No will, O Lord, but thine.

| 5 V. »
Bought with a price, a Saviour's blood,
So freely ſned for me;

But live, great to thee !
VI.
This reaſon bids, O give me grace
My reaſon to obey !
And tho? I cant diſcharge my debts,
May I delight to pay.

302 HY M N CCLX.
| CCLX. Short Metre. 8 2
ns. The fourth beatitude ; or ſacred hung er and thirſt.
F *

TEN "4
Bleſſed fouls that feel
A facred thirſt within!
Who hunger too for righteouſneſs
And hate the i of fin.

"Tis Angel's food to them
To do their father's will; :
And whilſt on ſuch rich food they feaſt
They thirſt, and „ ſtill.

How do they pity thoſe ©
Who pant for earthly |
Who like old Iſrael's leſs fo

Deſpiſe their heavenly food.

How do they long to feaſt
Like ſaints that dwelt above!
Who heaven's pure manna eat and drink.
Full draughts of - ds
@ .
Nor ſhall they long in vain?
The bleſſed day draws near,
When they of righteouſneſs ſhall drink
Their fill, fo . here.

This holy hunger, Lord,
May n thirſt in me excite ;

hteouſnets' be my purſuit,
y tood and my delight,

Then

Then in the worlds above,
Where Angels ever bleſs
My lon ing, panting ſoul ſhall, Lord, -
Be flPd with righteouſneſs.

CCLXI. Common Metre.

An hymn before Jos: or 4 parable of the

er abri
di £

ORD, ere the heavenly ſeed is ſown
T hy ſervants hearts os.

And may thy bleſſing ſwift deſcend,
Brought down by fervent prayer.

Lord of the Ry. God of grace!
Send down thy heavenly rain ;
In vain we plant without thine aid,
And water too in vain,
III.
May no vain thoughts, thoſe birds of prey,
Defraud us of our gain;
Nor anxious cares, thoſe curſod thorns,
Choak up the precious grain.
IV, ®
Ne'er may our hearts be like the rock
Where but the blade can ſpring;
Which ſcorch'd with heat becomes 2 noon
A dead, a uſeleſs thing. |
v.
Let not the joys thy poſpel gives
A tranſient rapture prove:
Nor may the world by ſmiles or frowns
Our faith, and hopes remove.

3

But

| 304 H T M N ccixll.
; 1
But may our hearts, like mellow'd ns +
Receive the heavenly word;
So ſhall our fair and ripen'd fruits
Their wn afford. ...
Il. 4 |
tho ſhall our chearful hearts and tongues.
egin this ſon divine ; .
= View Lord, Faſt given the rich increaſe,
« And be the glory thine. Se es
'The above may be ſung after ſermon by making the
following alteration in ftanza I. |
Now, Lord, the heavenly ſeed is ſown
Be it thy ſervant's care 9 1
Thy heavenly bleſſing to bring down
By humble fervent prayer.

CCLXII. As the 148th Plalm.
A morning bymn taken chiefly jron ew.

I.
OME all my powers unite
To praiſe th' Eternal _
The Great Inviſible,
Of light and We the ſpring:
Parent of
Almighty God PR
The earth and heavens

Nature's ſtupendous frame,
Great Architect! is thine;

Thy varied works proclam
Thy {kill and power divine:

1 1 N copay, 395
If in thy works

Such beauties are,
Thou, Lord, muſt be

Surpaſſing r
III.
Speak firſt, ye Angels pure,
Ye hinjng {ons of light,
For ye his glories view,
Tho veil'd to mortal ſight;
Circling his throne, |
With joy ye raiſe
Your tuneful voice
To og his preiſe.
IV.
All ye in heaven that dwell,
And * on earth jo in all,
Him firit, and laſt, and beſt
With chearful voice —
He feels no change,
Nor fears an end;
His greatneſs who

Shall comprehend ? | n
V. |

Ye Stars of light, which fix'd,
The wide expanſe adorn, „
* Ye ſilver Plangts too
Which uſher in the morn,
+ Ye wand'ring fires, -
Where'er ye rove |
Q q Proclaim

* Tho? the planet Venus is call'd the morning ſtar, yet
it is equally true of the other . that they are ſome-
times the harhingers of the riſing ſun

+ Milton ſpeaks agreeable to the ancient philoſophy,
which ſuppos'd that the planets * with their own na-

nye *

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Proclaim the power
By which ye move.
* VI. Yo
Thou Sun, of this great world
Both eye and quick'ning ſoul,
Whoſe beams extenſive reach
The North and Southern pole;
Thy greater Lord .
Rejoice to praife,
Who deck'd thy orb
With golden rays.
VIE:
Him praiſe, thou-world of fire,
Whilſt chmbing in thy might,
Him praiſe, when thou haſt-gain'd

Thy arduous noon-tide- height;
Then haſt' ning to |
Thy watry bed
O'er gilded waves
His glories ſpread.
VIII.
Moſt glorious emblem thou,
Of chat Great „
Who from the darkſom void
CalPd up thenchearing net 8
He ever gives, © +

But ſtill has more;
His gifts can neer
Decreaſe his ſtore.
IX.
Thou Moon, fair queen of night,
Who meet'ſt the orient ſun;
Now haſt' ning in thy courſe
His neareſt beams. doſt hun,

Praiſe

HIT M N CCLXIL 307

Thy wand'rings guides,

Praiſe him, who all

And bade thee rule
The ſwelling tides.

Ye fruitful Elementes hy
Pour maker's praiſe diſplay,
Whilſt all your genial powers
His influence wide convey ;
In all your forms, |

Through nature's round,

In every change
His honours ſound.
Praiſe him, ye Meteor's bright
And Exhalations all,
That now aſcend aloft, _
Or in ſoft rain-drops fall;
Nov float in clouds
Of golden hue; |
Or 8 in area
ly dew. _
.
Ye Winds, — x th — |
In whiſpers is praiſe;
And wh Headfal —
Your loudeſt voice ye raiſe:
Ye Plants; ye Pines
Of lofty brow
Your heads in ſign
Of rev'rence bow.

|

Ye Springs, and chryſtal Floods.
Which gently warbling flow,
FR Qq 2

In

Ye creatures, chief ivrank, cx
For whom earth teettiihg ſmiles _
And ever bounteous heaven

The grateful debt Adee,
Bear on your wings

Ye Birds his praiſe; © — 5 A*

And mounting ſing
| Your ſweeteſt lays. '
ICE XIV.
Fiſhes, that gfiditig cut
The ſilver ſtreams; or 8265 |
And ye for whom — |
Was form 2 Alike to Phat
Who lowly creep
Or ſtately l,
Your 3 Fr
Unwearied pread.

In choiceſt gifts diſtills;
: Ye, that may Cod TT s 6k.
Your father call,

© Crown the .
Be tongue 0
Man, thou ART 40
Speak louder than the .

Let gratitude moſt purt

Inſpire thy pantin breaſt : ,
Thy heart, and ton "Y
Each mornifis ta
To ſin thy
Creat

in coltfelefs murmurs ger.

— 7 4 4

HY M N Clin 269
CcLXIII. Cbthmon Metre.

Th boice ; vr thi cobra, terial 2
ne aach * . vi. 68. *

1 my bleſt 34 bo 8 40 Grid —
To earthly minds offence,
J him adore, the Living Bread,
And draw my life from thence. |
I
Let an ungrateful fickle throng
Forſake my heavenly guide;
I know his voice, his words I'lI hear
And with him my abide.
II. |
Yes, O my Saviour, the bleſt words
Of endleſs life are thine:
Where ſhall we go but, Lord, to thee
Thou teacher all-divine ? |
IV.
Great ſun of righteouſneſs | thy beats
, Have chas'd away the night;
Life, and immortal joys by thee
Are fully brought to 3
.

Thou haſt marled out the pach to bliſs
Leſt we ſhould miſs the way:
Lord, may we tread theſe holy paths,
And never go aſtray.
, NEL. -
The hope of bliſs, through all my toils,
My drooping ſoul ſhall chear
Thy preſence, and fupporting grace,
Shall baniſh every fear. |
Eternal

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310 H Y M N CCIXIIL

A rr
Eternal life, thy promiſe i is,
Thy truth ſhall make it good;
For chis rich gift, unſpeakable !
Was purchas d by thy blood, ..

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| the foregoing Hymns.

Note, The figures refer to the number of the Hymn,

+ ARON's prieſthood,
and Chriſt's compa-
red, 123,
ABEL's faith and ſacrifice,
192.
* his faith and
obedience, 195. plead-
ing for Sodom, 26. re-
joiced to ſee Chriſt's
| day, 78,
ApoyT1on, the privilege
of, 22, 178, 202.
AFFL1CT10Ns, the bene-
fit of them, 214, 215.
Ac Eb ſinners, rarely con-
verted, 161. |
Aconr of Chriſt, 95, 99.
ALL things working for
good, 214. are now
ready, 2 95
Axchos of hope, 186.
Ax Er's, deſiring to praiſe
like them, 1. their hum-
ble worſhip, 36. our
patterns, 37. miniſtring

to Chriſt and the ſaints,
144+ rejoicing at the
converſion of a ſinner,
142, 143+ pleas'd with
contemplating man'sre-
demption, 98, 143.
AnT, the luggard ſent to
her ſchool, 157, 158.
ANXIETY reproved, 75.
Ax k, ſee Noan.

Ar mou, the Chriſtian's,
188, '
Asnam'pd of Chrift, the

ungeaſonableneſs of be-
ing ſo, 106, 136, 183.
Ascsns1onofChriſt,13o.
and advocacy, 131.
As PIR IG and complain-
ing, 60.
ATHEISTS reproved, 2,

153. :
APT.ISM of Chriſt,
238. of Chriſtians,

238, 239.
. BEN ETI

IN D E x.

| Benzrrr 4 affictions, Cuntsr, di. nativity, 76
Die 22. on Ris name je-
| pe; 82. light of the

BesrT choice, 63, 64. le-
gacy, 159. 17

| es pe
er and praiſe for them,

7 2 _

_
BL ser Ess of the poor

in ſpirit, 205. of the
pious dead, 222. of the

7! zoligiaus.mourner, 188.
of peace-makars, 265.

world, 83. his kingdom

not of this world, 84.

—

of thoſe that hunger 2 |

thirſt after —
neſs, 260. 1 2 311
Boner ino, odions 0 G.
and youu men, 147.
497. f

Bboxs opened, 235. of

life, 2 „ 29.
Kaos: larpent, 141.
Ba IT AAN 7s and
deliverances, __—_
0! pinels and du y, 243+

- warn'd, 2984.
r Hy

anz anxious re-
prov'd, 75.
NTURION'S Eau nd
mended,

Gene „Aanley of
_ - hat doctrine, 153.

' his humiliation our ex-

altatich, 85. hymble

-majeſtyy 87. miracles,

_ 88. transfiguration, 89.

. 90, 91. waſhing his di-

Teiples ſcet, 92. came
not to fleſtroy, but to
fulfill the law, 94. a-

— 2 99. the good

:

- his po-
verty and contentment,
7. his love paſſetngn
3 98. the man
of ſoxrow-s, 99. moc d

by his enemies, and ſa-

lated byhisfriends, oo.

8 voluntary i in this ſuffer-

conan og of thꝰ ef. |

ah, 77,79.
_ Charity, it's excellen-
cy, a09 . properties, 2 10.
CuranyviNuess in reli-
gion, e
enen of this world,
their wiſdom, .

ings, 102. number d
with. tranſgreſſors, 103 ·

hislaſt. — 104. mi-
racles — chis
death, 109. crucified,

the wiſdom bor God, 106.

praying for his 2
ters, 10%. his

110. Ris example, wo.
compaſſion. .and tender-
neſs, 112. The lamb
of r 114. ſuperio-
123. "his yokæ eaſy, 124.

dis death, burial, and

reſurrection, 125. re-
ſurrection, 126, 127.
aſcenſion, 30. aſcen-
ꝛcto and adyoeaey, e

- .
12 1
wy * FR * — *
„ 9
1 ND —E 2 *
X.

" rejefted in his own

_ \Evunitry,: 155: his un-
233.

*changeablenefs,
firſt and ſecond coming,

237. histribunalercd..

ed, 234

CHRISTIAN, tune al and falſe
deſcrib'd, 173.

Ch R, it's beauty, 19

\ ſecurity and "nability, |

r

ConDpsM NAT TO by the
law, 220. fregllont cem
It, 207. |

Cerec buten of God,
17 476; © 12

Coen tssten an e-
nes, 146. N

Cohsets Nes wounded, |

203. good, 204.
Contes arion againſt

the fears cod es Loaded

— 2215, &c. T7
ConTENTMENT, 45, 97
198,

ConvVersa tion, an hea-
venly one, 202.
CABAT TOR, à ſummary
view of it, 11. x
Cosrou, dificultly Fub-
"HT 161. var 2
D

\EAD, the bleſſedneſs
of thoſe that die in

the Lord, 223. |
Duden. meditation oni it,
vi over it throa h
- Chriſt, 220; of friends,
221.cohfolationsagainſt

e fears of it, ſee Con-
tion.

DzLars in religion dan-
gerous, 158, 161. f
Dz$1RING N God |
like the angels, 1. to
- praife him without de.
grading his perfections,
21. internal purity, 169.
to be affected with a

viour, 108.
Dirricurrits of provi-
dence, 74. and folly
of fin, 163.
Divi v E influences and di
rektion implor'd, 140,
2
DE: all to the glory of

God, 70. in ts name
of Chriſt, 182.

Dov 8s and fears check d

7
Dovke FUL Props 18.
Dominion of God, ſee
Gon, * b
Dx Aw1ũ os, to God,
42.
E
ARTH, not our reſt,
r

Furs 39, 41.
Err usb of the ſpirit,
12322
Exp of the world, 236.
En#Mies Rr? oy church
diſappointed, 241, 242.
Ex6cn's faith and tranf-
lation, 193.
ETENNAL life purchaſed
and promiſed | y Chriſt,
263. *

ETERNITY of God,

Kr hs

view of a crucify'd Sa- |

\ n

d attribute im prov'd, |

3 hymns, 45, 49.
reflection, 47.
1 ExALTATIONR of Chriſt,
_ ſee Reſurrection andAſ-
=>: © "WY cenſion.
EXAMPLE of Chriſt, 111.
ks of the ſaints, 190, 191.
8 1

SAITH, living & dead,
174. it's | exploits,
191. inferior to love,
209, 210. loſt in frui-
tion, 226. in God and
Chriſt, 25 2.
FAITAHFULNESS of God,

es: of God our life,
62.
FasT day, an hymn on
ſuch an occaſion » 244+
* Fran of God, 71.
FoLLyYand madneſs of fin,
162, 163.
For MALITY, it's inſufi
- ciency, 174.
FoRBEARANCE, ſee pati-
ence and Charis/. 4s
For E-RUNNER, one of
Chriſt's amiable cha-
racters, 25 2.
Foux rain of life, invi-
tation to it, 165, 167.
Fx AIL Tx bewailed 156.
of life, 216.

FREEDOM, by the goſpel,

134.
Fruits of the ſpiri,161,
THAIS io 776 £1

ENTILES, ſharers,
in the bleſſings of the

goſpel, 77,87, 133.134.
ob, his being, 2. unity,

3. perfections in gene-

Fas 4. eternity, 55 6.

incomprehenſibility, 17

225 ſpirituality, 18.

his glories manifeſted in
his works, 9, 10. in the

formation of man, 257,
258. naiverſal parent,

22. go

neſs, 23,

24. reverently

— 25. a righ-

teous judge, 26, his pa-

tience, 27. omniſcience

and omnipreſence, 28.

truth, faithfulneſs, and

unchangeablenefs, 29,
30, 31. imitation of his
moral perſections, 32.
' ſupreme dominion, 33,

34. enlargement of his
kingdom pray'd for, 35.
power in the kingdom

of nature, 38. in earth-
quakes, 39. majeſty and
"outs 41. his favour

ug life, 62. our ſu-

| premehappineſ3, 564.

E 656. the
pre | of men, 66.
our times in his hand,

657. his condeſcenſion,
17, 176. his condeſcen-
ſion im

or'd, 68. his
name is love, 69: no re-

| ſpeRter of perſons, 175.
e God of peace, 206.
7 Good

INDEX

Goop conſcience, the plea-
ſures of it, 204.

Gosr e L, a glorious light, |

135. excellency of it's
- morals, 138. praiſe to
Gad for it, 13, 594 it's
ſucceſs predicted, 133.
true freedom by 1 it, 134.
Prayer for it's en,
357 1372 it 's feaſt, 250.
_ invitations, 165, 142.
not aſham'd of it, 11
98 ſufficiency 65 1 it
in Chriſt, 181.
'H

FT APPINESS of the
pardon'd ſoul, 208.
HaR VEST hymn,
Heavsn, view Ji by
faith, 229. knowledge
and lows perfected there,
226. abſence of all evil,
222, 237. it's peaceful
ſociety, 127, 128.
He avexLY mindedneſcs,
38, 203.
Hor v Spirit promiſed, 168
HoLingss of God, 25.
Honous true and. falſe,
177.
Hor E, the ſure ancflor of
the ſoul, 185.
Hos ANNA to Chriſt, 101.
Hunax affairs, God's

condeſcenſion to them,

17. frailties lamented,

156.

HomtLiaTiON of Chriſt
our exaltation, 85.

Hv MILITY, Chriſt a pat-
tern of it, 124,

'HumsLe majeſty of the
aa of peace, 87.
eart the abode of God,
176.
HunGer and thirſt after
righteouſneſs, 260. .

DOLS not to be wots,
ſhipped, 8, 14, 243
ImiTaT10N of 'God, 32.

of Chriſt, 111. of an-

gels, 37. of the ſaints, |

190, 191.
_ Is GRATITUDE lamented,
K |

INTERNAL purity deſired,
169,

Ixvirarioxs of the gol.
pel, 165, 167.

Jes us the promiſed Meſ-
ſiah, 76. ſee Chriſt.

Jews, their unbelief and

cruelty, 100, 108.
Jonx, Chriſt's fore-run-
ner, 83.
ge day, 230—

236.

West of God,
K phayer for it's en-
largement, 35. |
Kincpom of Chriſt, not
of this world, 84.
n imperſect
on earth, perfect
in Beavck We
I.
| AMB of God, exhor-
tatioa to behold

him, 114 |
Law, fold 1 in Chriſt,
94. LITE,

Rr 2

N DE x

LxxzE, 1 it, 200.
© irs fast, 216. only |

ſeaſon for pr aring for
701 |

another 175 47.
Lienr of the World,

Chriſt eminently ſ0,83.

Livire ſacriſice, 259.

12 > day, hymns for it

_ Pep 247, 248.
A pper, hymns ſuited to
1 113 3— 123.
Los Sheep, parable of,

142.

-” Love of God and brit

in our redemption, 1 109,
the amiable name of
God, 69. to God, 69.
72. to our neighbour,
59, 197. to enemies,
32, 107, 138. ſee Cha-
rity.. to an unſeen Sa-
viour, 115.
Loox ix on him whom
_ we have pierced, 120,

ADNESS and folly
of fin, 163.
MajzesTY Pr mercy of
God, 4
Man, is Galle agd mor-
tality, 216.
Mans10ns heavenly, pre-
par'd by Chriſt, 252.
MEss1a#,” his characters,
11775 ſee il.
INISTRY of angels, 144.
MizxacLes of Chit, 3.
at his death, 105.
Moveration deſcribed,
197.

Monnixg bymns, 44
262, 4

£

Mosxs and Chriſt com-
par d, 91. bis wiſe
choice, 955 N PRO
246.

| N SN als mercies

. acknowledged, 595
242, 243.

Narri N of Chriſt, 76,

777 &c.

1 ARET H 'singraticude,

New? covenant confirm'd
by Chriſt's death, 118.
year, reflections on it,

_T% rl 237.

N6an's faith and obedi-

Lence, 194,

Nor AsHAM'p of Ckrit,
183. or of his goſpel,
136.

Novzuszx, zth, hymns

on that anniverſary, 241

242, 243.
BEDIENCE, the ne-
CY. ceſlity of it, 122,
173+
Qrx1css of Chriſt, 110.

Orp leaven purged out,
1

OyexincG of the books,
235» p _

ARABLE, of the loſt

| Theep, 142. of the
prodigal ſon, 145. pha-
riſee and publican, 147.
of the ſower, 261. wed-
ding garment, 148.

treaſure in a field & the |
rich

v

1 N D E/ X.
i 149. the Paovinexex of God, 68.

rich.

rich foo] ſurpriz'd, 150.

"7 rich. man and Lazarus,

151. ten virgins, 152.

Pax von, God ready to

beſtow i It, 145, 140»

Par pon'p Soul, his ha

pineſs, 208.

PATIEN CE of God, 27 27.

PASSOVER, Chrif i is ours,
113.

pr ACE, Chriſt's legacy,

189, makers their bleſÞ-
edneſs, 2

Pracervt. 13

ven,

7a 238.
PemTer's qd 186.

Pit. GrtMact of the ſaints

171.

PLEASURESOf a goodcon-
| ſcience, 204. of religi-
on, 185.

Poor regarded by God,
17

1 of ſpi Rien its
bleſſedneſs, 20

Power of God, ſee e God.

Px aiss the buſineſs of lite

57. for the goſpel, ſee
goſpel.

PraYER, hymn before it,
40. and prazſe for tem-
poral mercies, 43.

PzresENCE.of God the beſt

ſupport in life & death,
JO. «cn

PatEs T RHOOD of Chriſt,
1

ProGREss in religion. 199

ProyHEClEs relating to
Chriſt, 70. F

—

Ricks, their inſufficien-

it's difficulties, 74. ex-
plained, 226.

PsAUus turned ——
or fas got viii. 12.

N © 15. Au. 1.
16. exiii. 17, 18. eil.
19. cxlvi. 20.

Purity of ee |

for, 169.
UARRELS & a
Q unbecoming Chriſ-
tians, 227, 228,
Queneuinc the ſpirit,
Wo ow of it, 134.

- ACE, the Chriſtian,
| Sate |
E

DEMPTION the] joy of
angels, 143. by che pre-
cious blood of Chriſt,

166, 256. and ſalvation

250.

Res1GNATION to provi.

dence, 213.
R611610vs chearfulneſs, |
185.

ResT9on earth, a vain

imagination, 201.
RELIOION, vain without

love, 209. the founda-

tion, of national happi-

neſs, 240.
ResuRRECT1on of Chriſt,

fee Chriſt and Lord's-

day. of the * 220
„ 251.

Rica fool priz'd, 150.

ey,

7's Sai indeed, Ons,

1 N D E x

ey. 219. the true Rich-
es, 164.

Risz with Chriſt, 128.
Room at the -2% I
* Pe © a7 |

DACRAMENTS, 7 | ſee

Lord's ſupper & ar-

Mika.

e of cu. 0. |

110, 123.

Sam 3, their priviledges,
honour and duty, 178.
SALVAT10N by grace, 86.
of the ſoul, 256.
Szasoxs of the year, 54.
SELF - knowledge, 170.
dedication, 70, 259.
government, 64, 4 70,
177, 197.
SEEING through a glaſs,
and face to face, 225,
226.

Senuox, hymn before &

after, 261.

SzExING divine inſtruc-
tion, 61.

SETTING God before us,

duty and advantages of

It, 446.

Sn EET of Chriſt, their
character, and ſecurity,
96. and * *
224.

Sincburrr, 20

Sin, cuſtom in it, 161,
folly and madneſs of it,
163, Chrift's greateſt
enemy, 108.

SLEEPING ſinner alarm'd,

249.

SLuccard, repror d and

inſtructed, 157, 158.
Song of angels, 78, 80,
81.
Sons of God, 22,178,202.
Sour, it's ſuperior dignt-
ty, 25 8. ow
SLoTH reprov? d,157,158.
lamented, 230. .
SnokTwess of life, 215.

| SPIRITUALITY of God,

33

Suben, 54; DER
STEWARD preparing”
his account, 230.

Storm & thunder, 38,54.

STEDFAST Chriſtian's ſe-
curity, 187.
STRENGTHENED by the
grace in Chriſt, 181.
Sun of righteouſneſs, 83.
SUPPORT under troubles,
6, 20, 29, 73, 252, ſee
Affliction
SY ci, 1 12.
- ori
ABLE of the Lord,
ſee Lord's ſupper.
THanxsGIviINnG for pri-
vate mercies, 43. for
natiBnal, 242, 243,
'TEzrRORS 'of conſcience,
203. 2
Tinu, it's value, 47.
Tnomas's unbelief, 129.
THUNDER, 38, 54.
TrAnsFIGURATION of
Chriſt, 89, go, g1.
Taivurn of Chriſt over
his enemies, 131. |
Ta usr in God, 73.
Turn

INDEX

TavuTn and faithfulneſs Wisvon of God in his

of God, 29, 30. *

Trees, fulfill d In Chriſt,
. 104, 123.

7ICTORY over death,
through Chriſt, 220.
Visor, parable of the
ten, 152
UN ir of God, 3.
UncnuancranLeness of
Chriſt, 50

Wien Crit,

.
mented, 51.
Wax, our duty under that
national calamity, 240.
WARTAR , Chriſtian, 188
WarninG to Britain, 254
WATCHPULNESS, neceſ-
ſity for it, 170.
WäarzER and blood, 120.
Weppinc garment, 148.

works, 9, 10. in the for-
formation of man, 257,
258. her exhortation to

| youth, 159. tomankind,

164. her 3 and

ts, 160.
Wn of eternal

found with Chriſt on
26

4
Won l o, it's _
162, end, 2364

Wov N DED conſciencezoF |

T

remember their crea»
tor, 159. the beſt time
for religion, 158.
Vox of Chriſt eaſy, 124.
2

EAL, true and falſe,
211, 212.

Zlox, prayer for her proſ-

perity, 19. ſee Goſpel.

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